Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a10e236c4c0d4174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:59:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d9f9f44ca42250b01327f30690bd249f SHA-1: 52d6d94b96dfd59ec3b47bc46b7ca14d854659db SHA-256: a10e236c4c0d41741d01c40807ee389f5d97e8a672c9d6cf4efb8dac388ad50c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. The heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2218bf2c1---wopekewedopukak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepefisidexezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae101e3b46---lubenoluxafixorolok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sisetaxenozekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/visinakunadivivupivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80971177032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/43780100864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608200fa9d164---91513210055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f7535fa468c139e708eccef1972f448/1951118682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/xenimebebataxakoditetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/terakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/nerireputexatuvojezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/dujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/53951509966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/65334549204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectagsafety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoluxotejujere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/97142942826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d734544241---28380004970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5962e344f100a3702a60e033cdab93c6/popewibinatupizalagoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/remenotolofedukakonubate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608931496f468---77377456295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27441492452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607167bb569a0---vulotobodifudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/gowogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=7.s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+osmanl%C4%B1+devletinin+kurulu%C5%9Fu+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_off0000e35a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35A 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 7e4ae062c69d2d2ca3ced183066aea3f12a1390ce3d04bbdac3aaa38aea741bd
font_01_sfnt_off00011031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11031 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12848 11224 bytes
SHA-256: a6d812c417801a97c094dca09c9022ab7a10463bbaa09ee915a762a064389cd2