Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f48f7b3daa14a66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:56:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d4592ca652f42315cd5efd0144ca4eb SHA-1: 2d8953d382dcfd01ae0f5b8141024d28e4cdb304 SHA-256: 9f48f7b3daa14a669688415b2656d3d7012c85d104148ccdf06d12d193613757
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to initiate malicious redirects or download further payloads. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50258896732.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/55907170656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/74475124055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/93413914929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/60950834899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161126c8fe5d37---67301059811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/xomudizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/dexurunedajokemonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/47231775153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08840be3a2---24691201118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb487d350d---gumukegokosijonovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210706074606117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a3d936665---zegexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/damewonisozuwewivopimolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ec5a611fdf8916df65084b9beead08/44563982770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d006d2521---bomesadabexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starwebline.com/calisma2/files/uploads/84962534095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/lexugebijosoxoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/nepeviwewovanidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/45050296106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/172851531661062a7bea311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/20496362274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e9216c9e5---22461813980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f303c563d0---95237134460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pre+school+regulations+2016+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_off0000e80c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE80C 18316 bytes
SHA-256: b733c2b8f85fdba67587029a602e250e3157934d532d7a5674dc9f57321a17ce
font_01_sfnt_off00011681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11681 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 25678b777dd270e54e0f743ceee2061bc825b89b118e75ae5aa124d77e3ff279
font_02_sfnt_off00013173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13173 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1