Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 968030dc73ca7f68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:14:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1566b4fa5761add80775bc8183f92973 SHA-1: 8add9978fca20e950abf81fa86e67731013f616e SHA-256: 968030dc73ca7f68d7f8e11354872350923f5a3b5281a84a41deddde104faf97
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. It also features a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other external sites, indicating a likely phishing or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ride.hu/images/uploads/files/15435540084.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28791935016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/lusidedozidozadozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipojovivujilegivubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recepti.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93738531134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxekax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/gizadogafepurovuzugivoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pubemipapozowejipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com/data/editorfile/ginejivez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/62714264681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30397956650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/27349872047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/gorovasawelogafutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosonnguyenthanh.vn/webroot/userfiles/files/32470553882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ee0eeabf7---rukidoxijejebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/jozexorawazovebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0mg04f36vr8j37d4esvp7ksvr/41986910586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/kodixukomuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44919fe2cef0992a49d2561e8dee9ed0/34409789013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/83062204659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ab333cfd8---51139824351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/fazewidogomivapegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f88af49516212b211a8d9e5e91a7ce/bitawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sultan+movie+tamil+dubbed+watch+online+hdPDF 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_off0000cb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8D 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 075ee7b141221cad5c22d0202db7dfc43c53d89f36a9c1fc77b2525a2e7ca6b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A0 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 62586f768fb3055ca330e0ae0a28ce1b16d33e01dce369fbe3c79892d379451b