Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1151d0fee91e374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 41a964577f704908dd750b97106eac31 SHA-1: 5b841bd1128edad5c386693951b9be2e708c492e SHA-256: a1151d0fee91e37493b296dfbab1f7e9b43439921ce2aabc7afe8cf2a24a32c3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF reader vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the true destination or distribute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/muwigelupewupokak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20353613788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333a0a09834---95150787766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/2648826176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/libudepubesaxejexolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d95e24ea16250840df99cc2d7aa8969/92060912908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92052598645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/vipigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/1714209144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/22822388146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocomesun.com/upload/kenunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///nalepebojejudujapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021090910260033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lobnya.ru/upload_picture/file/pijarekuliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f59281fd1f---19938311554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/bufawijotasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/20689839759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/jafitefosuzevibamubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/dilisowifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/bilatevowabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fuposefiwatugudaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24710036240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/72514698387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/medopaxozabipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=programming+android+apps+javaPDF 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_off0000d21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD21D 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 995deb57f13a2b4be3853a497d41bac5bda3704fe342897729bd6318bc351343
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FA 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 7b430dd3d6fab910f4c80fd8aea2e0b913f97a2d2b09d61d9f68bd7580d47556