Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a640867b95260878…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:24:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5972302c2f5c301c816f6272fc2d979c SHA-1: 386fdca7e54bf07a7af412a4c118146e2badcaf6 SHA-256: a640867b95260878de225b37a3d3f3e5cbf9432c97af02934954f00a0aca514f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates malicious actions, such as downloading further payloads or redirecting the user to phishing sites. The presence of multiple external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggests a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://micruts.org/userfiles/file/somiseximutubilejera.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24579361044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--espaoldetalca-lkb.cl/var/www/html/upload/file/31806926427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76b6b3f25d6ac82ae43ff1d2bc4f0b7e/53344869025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/69826290080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flavio-tonon.it/public/file/5258745563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremedriveline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meluxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/5442588946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/59390733764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/92616362209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j687totd4g15h8o11hqgav5bqo/58850878446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/2031907201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/niripanunilupixitupaguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qep5f6u4jimo7hq5cj5ibjhuis/juzenewiserevote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/28914516360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminentland.com/admin/userfiles/files/nedajeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/zugoxuxabilarumofesulekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/kegometonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/muzipuxapujixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/2021912257265992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojuvomadelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/pobekovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=trainzimulator+real+sound+downloadPDF 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_off0000de77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE77 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 55d3abbd4e2177291bd5ca2aaad5c4b749bcaf6c3e372e3e257fac7da6cf8881
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 17256 bytes
SHA-256: d35673ae7f7e12e2c7a5c03de7594fa972298c46fbe4c1d20951b9db9ed561e5
font_02_sfnt_off000123a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1