Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1bce3a1c4c25f64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:19:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bbb1767618a49f7505390aeecfbe105d SHA-1: d72087592cc03bbccb3d52978b23c4cc4a01b945 SHA-256: a1bce3a1c4c25f64dbe7c7e73d41bce3fcf2066759828ded15afb998b9a7382a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. Heuristics indicate it is part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909a77dd383---wuvepizaxofiputo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1760bd8b0---49573037901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/zusilipaletibavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benawafefugiliwexafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/78459318518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/bomurikulifapenoxunima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/28366450582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisin1977.com/js/upload/files/fapefipuxulawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1krg4ifl3d4j9pv84p9k2f4rb/49825513963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4867a3ab97ffdbf5525b74909c230fc2/57589668429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6q3ajdrkggpnjflqb9u948ak7/13407949341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22eg4ts2dc25d000lih44f5id8/pawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cd6e978c7---84177607292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/64172611472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/29869352726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/jejofesazafekapivukolexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibuxagojuvebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709f04ed648---nefidagogubupaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a045e45ebef---91037863357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/liput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9288206435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slxiang.com/v15/Upload/file/202181537307790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/velugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=story+of+nightingale+and+the+rosePDF 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_off0000e8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10103 10820 bytes
SHA-256: f166b2342643c63cb30d26789d7b77ca0647d28d884829a9739c79c0a814afc2
font_02_sfnt_off000119ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AC 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 391c41e2224dce7c98d67659b6fac49af4f78218a36d619bc31411a95ca4ff5c