Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4d786a530698aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ad2edacbe934f5d79efa6a00868971d5 SHA-1: 7904d64ac02646524b3cc0cd454b1dbb750f4e0e SHA-256: a4d786a530698aabdf3e97274d5a245e6e41a949e935bc01968b914f6e2c2bb8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and evade detection. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically identifying it as a phishing or trojan variant.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://epoch-making.jp/js/upload/files/76630983037.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cb1e4b85bc---76323581512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eptesteplelek.com/uploads/file/dogutobuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/36998393672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107c09280a2e---nivetisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a8ce88b51---14587054581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/072234553779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/gefedusufugobuxamafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/kelosagajisolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8677445fc6774a9f8ef249e0f2ce6e40/86997306095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9620279edf---52051059497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/90634346121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba44a7eccadf59b811509e0c24647cab/benizivatotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/vemijaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba723011f5e---lototu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/14566316557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/riminawekafufobawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e59716a1c---71526430150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c256c43c7b7---zaguzetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felifofiwutalavuzugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/fiwaximasuwuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/11909815582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1b3669d57---66348384254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/divela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=not+being+there+quotesPDF 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_off0000d5f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F5 17920 bytes
SHA-256: d7350bcb465294950f475c3d2d4e6fd5933b184265e2cb8c5b8050f912eff601
font_01_sfnt_off0001043a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 89ef06e4cdb246a4b96be47f8c43c8a0b81f91d979932834839fffe47a068621
font_02_sfnt_off00011bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1