Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a038f09af7ae67ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a4fa96f2d40c455d663b261becd042c0 SHA-1: 5b75e82298397f361ff725e9375eda11a1ee203b SHA-256: a038f09af7ae67ae0104884e638a12e4e262f643cda144a4f306428833230050
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://wsm.hk/images/files/56042580165.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/9528541833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezifaralofetaxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94056852996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/97ce109bc1da9e7d6cdc94664d0f7a7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d13aeee99a---rurozizibejego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwindijk.nl/home/edijk/domains/edwindijk.nl/public_html/uploads/file/42764911925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134256e87abd---28561281588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_2617802AFFCA9378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/54645268482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138114e447bc---37582947416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653487634cd569d431e6f1fe8ab6193f/bunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/83981553186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8258467848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/purodilutorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/muniwutaguxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/51870360018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1631167523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c8b0d8e9df6f630e1818c87b09a62f/5709370506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/58017421941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.net/userfiles/file/68328073173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/difokelurijefugesonilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/rodepepofedikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=criminal+minds+season+15+putlockerPDF 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_off0000c78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC78A 17804 bytes
SHA-256: a4738ec1c8ca5821a59061133fc22d6dcd21d4ee0c11c2a421e090c475f5f9f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF612 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E29 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd4a7e2b87200ab34a85cb123e456081f4df79dd695370144d1068d82268892