Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a375390859bb3e88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 13900c918d62563c4e1160403a7271a5 SHA-1: 8c6fce368a21bfcb9d2781704475b24d78168a40 SHA-256: a375390859bb3e887fa706eb1ee28170ecc270a7a10552e9b1579e90ee026d35
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites or download further payloads. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://asv-solnice.cz/_files/file/segiwigupa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/52343768501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd63caa584dc98fb1426b265765ca89/pivowikibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ep0rajpg6a0eqokgfcd27gngv/gasujeligikuruvafuzunila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machi-tomo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78862823939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/rekogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutinoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb541p9qg2oi26shem7ui3309q/68285464329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc8f8b1bb4---67819074520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2779b7859968c5f31538dccff8c92e4/palinuwizibizapibubotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/61953134738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f227518d8b2---zarifumanegukebirudava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reklama71.ru/upload_picture/risegikegojofovogovojuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/67789999652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8891522c221a3595d335b5452c3d979b/renawamowekutupetapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toduwabiwaxejevarigejale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/21244821684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/duvafisenugute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ph2ohgba0ktt7gem9tk7uh71/danuvoredibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dc51b5bc9---valisena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/73456347074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c3a32310f---9775499917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=diagnostico+nosologico+etiologico+anatomofuncional+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_off0000dc12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC12 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 5fbfc784c188a1c2112e2dc7b0b36411ef96933c5f2b8a05534b707824431086
font_01_sfnt_off0001085e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085E 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 0158620553ca0c40d23b332c1094f4f034ac73e5b004c4d0991b5be7c61e8bdd
font_02_sfnt_off0001219b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1