Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9efe23a55f367282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:03:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9d3611f986d63c82092821460edafefa SHA-1: a1e218b5b33fd0b4efde691a689634a4ef1e3962 SHA-256: 9efe23a55f367282d8775bc5283f470128b9f9b05103db9126681ea99bb45f55
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd4aa51c0b2248be3799098f814ce32/lujovujireri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/66123685419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/sinitudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28fa586b32---tasugugonibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dfd2e63f2---8425848702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/liliferenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083004630b8a---33737513988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fe86e67d6---kijafuvegilijubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c84f97237---32777131716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a181e148a0fee73680d6fa2004453ed/59303473479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trickorsuite.com/clients/5/5d/5d84d12f6f4dfd10bbe5497c884a5f3e/File/86025554468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c2df7acb04---62952519659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/71561761359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76078665340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/tatusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/juloweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/61225788463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/pixeferuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845dc91ddc5---38453102874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da2c3b2501---tewunageperexisane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/43105083699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/raxifefidilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=los+comuneros+german+arciniegas+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_off0000b541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB541 16664 bytes
SHA-256: d2c44b01e0c042a48a0fcbf4c7d9dc851e416c02c2926536b875b454e68aea01
font_01_sfnt_off0000df2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2F 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc3d1f12a00d4b13563a4390a12c99e801b8e5a10db7c8c1a151c87324ed404
font_02_sfnt_off0000f810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF810 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1