Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ecbe71358bb037d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-08-16 20:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a97dfb7316aac523a15b8cf9fe11b8a7 SHA-1: c52416fd6ff1b95345e683088f1f688a2d194da6 SHA-256: 9ecbe71358bb037dad7291f20f1afb8f1249339e9ca6c9faf7d6f2b45a52cb7b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads or redirecting users to phishing sites. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/6248662563.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17ccdd01df---kimikadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/17880660882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09feab4d64---91716306162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_FA578157F7563A4B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38qmpji9k1q1nbnklpnqsdibl4/17435043657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5047f24fea250917f319d014ab85e40e/pinakaramuliniduxutewatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portofmiamitunnel.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxagewije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/82752674776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8bb2abda60521ac92dd7675515dc31/vitutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbbb9d3a33---98999072117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/dagiduwakofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/86708511111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100a11c6d56d---vezikobezafinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/vixigikozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74398970861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krossinkeuka.org/clients/c/c6/c64aa726effa6776341672ea469011e7/File/32258021338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/walumogizafefeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/97963715499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/75021691494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/piduwamugixevuwepipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9c1cb221a8f7bed2d63e62941bf98c/40929040028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/bajubawodogefuxatevatupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=livro+design+para+quem+n%C3%A3o+%C3%A9+designer+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE580 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD91 16640 bytes
SHA-256: 9918726e93ec2d9ab2a4e51e705719e5c3d3902e96cf3d136475d78fb788fd18
font_02_sfnt_off00011519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11519 19144 bytes
SHA-256: 51b70dc67109d98d1eec7927d288f9e425777e04566285a786cf133042cbdd8b
font_03_sfnt_off000143a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143A9 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3b956c55aacdee807944563bb51e402065c9427f850943c3bcc2a243a0f1f9