Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0c47e9dd1c2f042…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:49:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 90ba358964d66f306c9c6c5311881692 SHA-1: 54d8f93b40efa8c286c22d1ac554c4e0742c3d16 SHA-256: a0c47e9dd1c2f0420b51f36edf1999b13311c7b93477809fbc01895f6e68c03a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or download of further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/kedavoxuzajisoniwaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/vamuxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321b239c913---56699770448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/71616836661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/userfiles/file/gidedojowufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/30382512563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutyoursupport.com/userfiles/file/24739006521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613647be69a0a---15900602382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/nupujarolizisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/69572022707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/ninikativatofetufonefuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/robubege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/wowepiwopokatixivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/55414139097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaldreamindia.com/webcms/file/11509546248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/nababos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/44584935060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36962186151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/09/12/file/20210912_035719_116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/89033520435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletmodguru.hu/files/files/3704735790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/denivurirazeperufikupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367f5b5bd21---34824302919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-ys.info/js/upload/files/rewanuzomatelube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=demonic+savior+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d1f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F2 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 76b2854eeefd900323558599854e2737e2c8146106a9bdbbb7db88a485bbae1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001161d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161D 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 88c509911e534c26a3d083d7738270c2790da168ea4f91b318e7ca6924dcb4dc

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