Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4eb912fd69acd78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-27 15:09:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a6ac6b3d5c25b5207cfb9306b7b188ac SHA-1: d135d6532a848bf2d4f105e570122c31e5008067 SHA-256: a4eb912fd69acd78af0914f53f94d85c5cb6ddc13ca877c8a0f0bf0cf00edcf2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and is part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a likely attempt to distribute malware or redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402fb00f076---13458603654.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/94647311565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38519508219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/balupusironasevaxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kliknetezde.cz/admin/obrazky/file/pemotibojebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logakixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15557401013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe427cd1d5---60323995001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34539020874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/46220687906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalstage.biz/js/upload/files/vakunowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkyway-vn.com/upload/files/dexunubavakalajomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/91168255756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/tawujuruxipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d2402c2d728c8eb4da0f0616b59ba31/xutofudilulewobebetedaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/fubetixekawelamojovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewafizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/dixolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22576433360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13083896889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/32647849064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133490b5de4d---2121933738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hypoglycemic+coma+vs+hyperglycemic+comaPDF 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_off0000b051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC868 10788 bytes
SHA-256: c06f3f5694f5c59cb50d60cfc76360d52552f53f50c192d4742096961e85c1fb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE137 16492 bytes
SHA-256: b38ea09998b9deef2af5a05474f74dfa48f977ceb9bc598d60c7c4e79950fd3d