Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a533b74a61654444…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:09:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 0e64f14f8035a97c735fe52f014146fa SHA-1: e315843b5d25e4992db7feff84f0fb6cf9554571 SHA-256: a533b74a616544446ab9301986300f3633e613186bb44fc70a141c7fcb1b3b3a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. It also contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/jumapabufojemogaru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798e6d41a49---93214624349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/17857767281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/tovikivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gold-carsales.com/js/upload/files/lowirokofolupufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742b5c2f055---newabijilenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2beb83ca5---vasadituzuzibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/xikunenosulijukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/fatapevovuwirulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifogada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7f362b864---fitope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/46667813292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0re0o4dmrj3m62rkl6najaqviu/bojawukobonedoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94217578516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cabdf0646f6---wawoxaverafodabisisebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2161bfdf465e815ea888c6cb0287e925/naxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbbdf676c5---31494086030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a003ccdad2f---fevolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32257o7cb5i9tv3vdr2hrsddq0/10387387509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb697b3885---32374643622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=kannana+kanne+song+female+version+mp3+download+masstamilanPDF 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_off0000c536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC536 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4D 11248 bytes
SHA-256: d89b8b956e3228bbe2b63af3597e6521af118043c3acd02805c5524a589f389a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78D 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 7179b359921040c2cec94b76b4a3a0fd787ac9bdcfe77f98d8d6c1229333524a