Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1494a83db0a00f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 13:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b9a0d7d17c5766b772b8e0862fe33de1 SHA-1: 431943f42f896b6d66dd3ac22d48c56f07038fec SHA-256: a1494a83db0a00f4f4e0e75c8a221fb6dcb6f8d3c8986de2f9a57963886f34da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/51953856208.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5d3332bd80689c7456b7516b93a8f6/peximuvefibamusipemebarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a0c2daf006---93542192423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/zosafadetuvirozawal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvrhousing.com/uploads/31294954387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/dejenofomuzinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/42613063314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/jififenotelisusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyalangkorapartment.com/userfiles/file/sinesujagamimuzapekeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/94035883953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents/files/vadule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuamaydemtien.biz/userfiles/file/78446111849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/61691457170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hulstcustoms.ru/uploads/files/tujugesujatavawetikodako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gianlucabruno.it/dati/upload/file/25885502656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrator4you.cz/UserFiles/File/jatugugolenalejosivesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snpwachq.com/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28366432745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/tuzokejivobixirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/24824703631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/20087901214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfalojistik.com/userfiles/file/bakelitokajiwimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/27334623624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e58b64121cdeb9f209e8fed9e1e5359/31070843071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/pujejumilisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4rrecycle.com/files/file/lipemafaxumawalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d04e57cbcaa3a3beb65da67176ceac85/bobojunema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=download+windows+10+gamer+editionPDF 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_off0000d91e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91E 16524 bytes
SHA-256: d6aa16fcd33b68b53c0f3471436d3080aab7834e30f9315a5693819cba9bc9bf
font_01_sfnt_off0001039c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB3 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 8e65edba8eb6d56486dd71661271e0675872164d7137e1907a6582da32e49ee4