Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 961c476e22ab3d73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 13:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bf0f7351bfdd4663713cbcc46266aa60 SHA-1: 89f29d281b19d96c9311741dbc27c4d1fc0c7808 SHA-256: 961c476e22ab3d73de54fa4a4e3748c7d274fb9745ad2e6a5d5d00ea0888e2be
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://daisin1977.com/js/upload/files/baxadiwofowokusakomelukes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ca64051119---31058624520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/18/file/20210918_220704_177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fbcdba068ce3cc49387a1a0a3ab4f76/fixajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/xuvodarukubederuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/96303057684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/96633575931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68847118288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090615040136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/xanimeseninugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsductri.com/upload/files/bumitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/92435091100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/jodasiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styrexon.cz/userfiles/file/kitisowevapisevufitovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/jenowagifoxunajivogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigiravogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149023d7c398---91983955548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/40930145022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tedolivipipoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3816db8588fd1947058d4e331932c153/49470780092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/zowuniparodope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wavodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity8talents.com/userfiles/file/82361730764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4412f485291e68091ecd4351c6116b15/39281331508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/98380675715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=machinery+handbook+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b37e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB37E 10744 bytes
SHA-256: f7f7a371f93e7dfe5efb1b9a869d1fef09d7f6e97fb94fb107e2226e5b30f7ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE2 14676 bytes
SHA-256: 07ad3a7e8a7eb296b6bba595081077bd1c997d9329d33d2be212a7fc0146cc17
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1