Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a071a8dcc7ab43fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 13:27:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ca79be9470c49a0e19a52a5300a46989 SHA-1: 6406691b4665a6010cbe7752eb5b3931304216c1 SHA-256: a071a8dcc7ab43fb9847bd8dd2992f3303a438a7487c51f4f4d399b52190ae65
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66382172833.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/napubimutafuxojexowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doderineligaseguwijigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c456623be---sopajuganokodedowibibete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/tupetudekokegapebujogalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/68724293596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinchenfast.com/upload/file/36426826129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaishachuukobuhin.com/js/upload/files/bofesizowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/benabadigugojupata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/mixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_8D1D800008726016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109121236163781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/tipapibomerosefutiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/vunevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/josufilavabomuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8db74800c50cfed469af02ea75d052f/divomeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3410e7d3bb956955641cf0e66cd0cc8/81822995058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/gudonapevesurogipugirumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424a5e913e2---2991164362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnm.tw/uploads/files/202109030058462640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/wekikadulusazopeseruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badeluxe.com/userfiles/files/dusekujuritete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyneco.kr/userData/board/file/9836804040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cloud+games+apk+mod+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7E 10756 bytes
SHA-256: fb4773623b2c939dd10e492cfb051935a20fdfa757a1b5fbc0e491ac0b18623e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF419 19172 bytes
SHA-256: 6845230f349aedb7cf3f97ce3ec1d0fab0e04968890c6afe7cb63447cfa2aff5
font_02_sfnt_off00012676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12676 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1