Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a0226826336b779…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:28:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 06bdb1da046a066df6f672c8c9209308 SHA-1: 05724091319bf17dc64e6a25a815c2971104b7d7 SHA-256: 9a0226826336b779a74afbe648dca1917c1b5dd8699ce9156341a4f5a37ba44e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to appear as search results for popular media, likely to trick users into downloading further malware. ClamAV detection confirms the malicious nature of the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avengers+infinity+war+full+movie+english+download PDF link annotation
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javixinuludakisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wajovefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gold-carsales.com/js/upload/files/madakibevoteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25897529438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/29280020275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adasbruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/mapufobokevasuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147947b7cc41---31497515096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614acecf91853---96559002134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/rakaboxewazafaredunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/tegabebuvav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/40188032630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/venal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/dinojatiteduzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/gogisoruboxusananebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/33965790515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/36687342179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43063760979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/dowobibumifuguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/30894062714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/74220655177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/tetelotijibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f4cf48104---61518512348.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_off0000bad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAD3 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 83ffbd325b3a574846914359051954e658f0134e93abcd3bdac47138c7274c31
font_01_sfnt_off0000e824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE824 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001003b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003B 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 1d19213b6b377da7930c6d473df9c89eb78a0577ff8c297d4c3c0616a937c417