Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a399620a4975497b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 03:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 29cda88be4c737ba0f8bcb8f954fab72 SHA-1: 22eb10f8406799b3a05881443d64c49fe7a00012 SHA-256: a399620a4975497bae2a9d8faf79d03b60bc12f0738fe587515fa8c963969df3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a large number of external URIs. Several heuristics indicate that the PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4pjcpa08ki5d8mckeabqe6feq/63472157034.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab98317f08907c0467b541b6ceaffa9/fimiduvinolatijipabudifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservativista.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26393218968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3cad5be33d---35352327578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799048dea31---nojexokudotomune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiampelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95b1944ff7ff5a8d65b0c5eb6b160ab/rogiwibifupetuzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6300fb47a6---47689914904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832180e473e---59389957673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/16017029690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a389eef20ac---dufosaxofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/ratasuruselazobupafezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarentcar.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210810_95509E3B189D945E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e64f9bac722---10482827419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/24202299607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ik8uhemhdhpc8afu0iau6377ma/zedosajuwesiwaloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/wawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/14695192509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083de8b883ba---9729070108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/48009065244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0ea579a8df---27030973433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j76j2mesig6tb1b17to6h714mp/74543906354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe86e2630ed---dagirenilopifamezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/toluxetodareparer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pipe+fitter%27s+math+guidePDF 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_off0000d0d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D4 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 551552717c84330faed3c0d197a24b20f5044641c3b04e332f5151f4d0bffa18
font_01_sfnt_off0000e999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE999 17064 bytes
SHA-256: ab9e5e9f8c7a3e1ecde3b74079557c20f2024d5cde8f2ed2eefb3118aa2bb8c0
font_02_sfnt_off00011635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11635 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1