Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a664e6e1997af66d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:41:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b6356ab7747d374e6da620b3e10c3a7d SHA-1: b4b70b31895b576b05067b79c5a69b014e055c38 SHA-256: a664e6e1997af66d7e43fba54a85033c78926d7a2362a06671ed3f9b1b826614
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 or redirecting users. The presence of multiple link farms, including one hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage, indicates an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially host malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202107032049566171.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/21766483762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/puvokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a818cc88662---36579277837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613206ee3f541---81755144160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608436077b669---podusewitagojipariwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786b3e34421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af8p9gvq0s970bfe755hm6dv5q/36830825784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/54363758733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/76358984774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c652ed495---fonowaxibikozaganevuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81c0d88c73---pazefavekamupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/sawulowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kltccompany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74318905845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimis.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d18131a722---fapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c25fedf20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasmedm.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisuwirebufodojamojepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/vezonazofagazagefalasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2545d0c170b48672d8b958c1c37f17/78097553829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents//files/39065084635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b818552c43d---72905046645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=funcionamiento+depuradora+piscina+pdfPDF 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_off0000bd96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AD 10812 bytes
SHA-256: ee7e3676a30d9883014bde6d4f050799039a0ac01a576e6427568c9521db6dae
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE93 15896 bytes
SHA-256: 5341a783ce271f64b73ab10a124a06b33bd01f5ff6de43f3daa1d2445dc88929