Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9713fbebcbf3b5a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:26:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 58de1ded7cd706ff56e40177307ad45b SHA-1: 034852b9eb27c5af702b666dd9d23011a5b59dfa SHA-256: 9713fbebcbf3b5a574ccb43fec20c15ce56f30fe2dff180d408e549223ae0fa7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

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://baoveantam.org/upload/files/61126687748.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fluellentrees.com/clients/58222/File/94234581873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/wamiwewiwabisile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhgianggroup.vn/upload/files/95348092399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1fc72646b4dee997e0dddde699799ae/fupomisuserep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a6c5e8f0a9530991a0b776ca369803/47378330357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/jedimejoxeludefofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/98162668456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/76664651399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjdmrrpg198lat0nkcu5rgcr59/povomobasujakuwusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/61591408492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/92292781956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/84568523106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/gozakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/69160461978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/73529067499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cka-shiba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70806909166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///jadijeluluxisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eiqev8crpsdmtsnt9d51npq94o/nokidogagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f7e47b26d---fonegizadugoberulovumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/34577589749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ec7afda4175322cb658963bc5e1b22/zewewobadikutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d7f31f7dc---wofojiluvelukipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27500022863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30976d744c98ff3423efe439021b3112/34857551283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46678345227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevorhannant.com/nuzimapibugazube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=coreldraw+tools+list+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_off000113c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE0 10504 bytes
SHA-256: a54c0abad705ba8634fcf50946b75689a3a13e5d056204848966d60aa3cb9511
font_02_sfnt_off000143f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F6 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 02677a49c19c957d790c43b027071ae10608ba22c841539c6d6229e0883a9252