Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9850dee8d3a708bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 05:23:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: aeab66f6a96a531f73a74ea01b4caaf3 SHA-1: 59a179be2fdbe06e18d04b0f72183de0c3add8eb SHA-256: 9850dee8d3a708bbf8d41c2b919564eb809154eea257c831324f0dbf19fcc6a3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to execute malicious code or redirect the user, while the link farm points to numerous compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of these elements strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+videoder+apk+latest+version PDF link annotation
    • http://rentappli.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/lulumigatijedala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadcnaeutgftohcogh8i8dsc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/badamevufijaxuramuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/61866564036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/18366909516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/48638137566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33277579106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaamir.ipixpms.com/Rapport/public/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagakerumopomidiweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/tixijakapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/47294863424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/gifatubewefitimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/mizazenelixagaragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e5b8b6bfa---76947167117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4tpnub2p6mvhs1738o56r6co2/berofajedegelesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/kifabudirudofilowokelobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/45805288493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordtmann.beckbauer.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30256806071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/82730061844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/lodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/26708404085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_2DB55E45E11DA853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fbb70b0a8e---22748918932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/henjnrffur4iam1injj7c15c77/75042960848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/52357844576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanjali.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11491905356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasterglasgow.com/fwd_docs/file/82255473460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC4 10628 bytes
SHA-256: fe5a613c9388a50610c9a708178e9bd94d9f71cf881624ec471f0e3a68645812
font_02_sfnt_off0000e638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE638 16716 bytes
SHA-256: f8d4c9afb63537273f20ee7947473a3c0e918a32599e4eec3c381b831d0fec0d