Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a593febe2dae8a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-10-11 20:42:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: fb2cc70921a05f08fee87f34659f8f15 SHA-1: e903a8eda9c20961988dd850bdf18fde9c2af7dd SHA-256: a593febe2dae8a41fca12546029842075aa67a1f85a281345daa937ffeb4f357
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, several of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious workflow designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://naoshima-habitant.com/images/blog/file/xuxowikisaturofa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc7ccbd5a6---nopiguwoxowokexarikoguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectagsafety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22478919901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe2a2525c0476b52c7cb2afdd9c9769/34205660982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/79564842816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/wexabalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137663597e4d---bagapepamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilmclainboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/zejiwitume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/tivininepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/zitinunirebapowakimugabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/zesidusibopovawaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/sakawugovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giyimkent.formenemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/67999643653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/teraxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/51070488456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021101111261773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/vafarazukerozudomovidalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcs.kz/data/content/file/83022301429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/56700290954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/gewogoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/21405814234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20211008051436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0343b9a3ac672529c5e3a36e417e4202/togifiwonolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/Z3ufxtS7Wvw/uplcv?utm_term=bootstrap+web+design+templatesPDF 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_off0000f99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99C 18352 bytes
SHA-256: ecfa0a61aade945549aa13c6d1caf2d7b7c60ec739ec66a70198342639bfd0a0
font_01_sfnt_off000128a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A9 11016 bytes
SHA-256: c34d7e3dd882f76a8ac636b4418776d265392bb68a5949f5aa6079e2da9d9bbd
font_02_sfnt_off000141e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1