Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aeb420c5804053d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:20:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 548d9cee842b10c282adec2d40586dc5 SHA-1: 2344f77c48476acb668ab90eb0ac85fbbec36b18 SHA-256: 9aeb420c5804053d85b391eb7a82dce423dcbd59ae4c319d978a09486955f18b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate this PDF is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploits vulnerabilities to achieve its malicious goals.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazofonalabejez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6adc74296b2d68a69179816e52e54709/90398519007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-weekend.com/clients/9/94/945a7f92a07ecc721aac768ad340748a/File/81170286320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekiguzifuxurulexopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9b493cae6---17180682676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/lijufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d81f8791825af500c401587f80be37/90334239645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/26020708759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maezawa-jidousha.com/js/upload/files/97926605207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba399f1eb5b---logabumowimaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/sisugevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/51548476947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/lizujegukesotodasobepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210811160000_o8do2l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857da899dd6---35360339775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/vobeditatejalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857cee21593---jabafikozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9404es2te0t1rllkd351u33i0f/faxivawisugatomosamomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/23121155823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9c9ea34f8872e38a1bd0177e5f819d/jomiwobimibaxesawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2a5485454---67229281957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=iflight+turbobee+136rs+manualPDF 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_off0000b561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB561 14300 bytes
SHA-256: 38c323ae8bc826f627a88c6fa1aa78721a3abb1810fab8e856db3cae2950781b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8FD 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad8bbc1957f58d0fb207b74ec377344909ac087516d661387e458c51e052306
font_02_sfnt_off0000f336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF336 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1