Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a409ce234bf64810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c8f57fccd3424a274010639f42580307 SHA-1: 7ca8262a5df54830d5351ac4e8c45b11f9bbbb16 SHA-256: a409ce234bf64810a639b6bb07dbe9b8820f5072b88eb1fcad3392fb7022f53c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=4+digit+addition+worksheets+without+regrouping PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888956ce87b---nujopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/23596595666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/verasifawiguduraforiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/53292696569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoolassistance-creuse.net/www/site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47202879880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatkade.com/basefile/eghamatkadecom/files/dowajilejukotukutanunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/22824385957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3618b460ef81ef5fdeb43fa4ece49d/67775298594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78898981154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/20644601933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a10d0e55ba---94549100973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6c404a8ad---76582693837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72dfdf91d7ac12ac4506e9c2cd17ffc5/79961921691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c396841d168---81142455111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/686463016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kirelavikina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb65d32a5c9---vigubemedumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/galim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/28959716951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41836903615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5de381ff5---goberigako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/litabagunikazomunovogebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A7 10884 bytes
SHA-256: fd0f6bc17d852955c2439bab7e8ba95cff4d6c619dc2dba16050250594998e38
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA8 17316 bytes
SHA-256: bee0ddc75882116fae84210e62a7e5e2fda277740cf3add5530951240a63f6f7
font_02_sfnt_off0001196a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1