Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d1bfac5d02ff0e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-10-02 09:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 45a601ae254fe4093ff150f520ba89f2 SHA-1: 503f2e98a07cce9f44c9119413ddaa861248f329 SHA-256: 9d1bfac5d02ff0e3b433e68eae3933e435a77962deb609f696c415c6bb460493
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics and numerous extracted URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98722031896.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/77183005251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/19277039886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161529694e097f---bamafubevokebitodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/waxupafavoximo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/19023598828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcentral.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/15639626900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161543848b925c---rudaparavinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af89f25315---24746310121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/89789771090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaiphapthietke.vn/media/file/files/tosedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/xirulenudejuteviwadaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///35033077822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cef3173abf---fowoxuwukokujokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e7e28b1023249ddf79a977dffacf8db/tenatojifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daieimotors.com/js/upload/files/11154236627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/dusijesemaxibupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/bakalugaraxezajasema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gupeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpt.taipei/asset/uploads/files/7734248150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b22e33035---12011106107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/gaditegovifakelilubegodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/44836815608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=access+2007+export+report+to+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_off0000ae90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE90 10584 bytes
SHA-256: f4cf41d6b3da6370c4a2e9e9909f1ab7f72a3b3e22cde4e05b8d4dcfe6470b0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F9 14452 bytes
SHA-256: 0162e9a892beb8f9fbf7761b3bbcb6c97e1f90fdd6822fcc68a81a79165ce431
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1