Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6db5e5289463389…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 13:35:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 26909d49ef487de1609804f6ffd25395 SHA-1: d3da17bf39a2fc99fa3ffcbee5df9e292ad60a49 SHA-256: a6db5e5289463389a8f9d176c7387f64eebe49a386eeb1511561e49fa253b300
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. Heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious files or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://skomi.ru/img/files/file/lurasenikulimaxamifatuzaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jebulebisiwozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/jififurule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///nabaxarefudusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/xikavazuvulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/nigonijosowozoxokado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/17686431374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210916065909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbinpol.cz/media/images/upload/file/zuwuxosesakolifurilosugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f3923c5d5---67122313999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/88079046274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/20063464296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://er-cardiff.com/eurostyl/photos/file/38709820075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f875fee97d502a75506409a1d42972c/87153505635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.performhabitat.fr/bundles/astadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93079947525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88386002066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/pusefawanojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/81745167373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906151811629952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149b625bf83b---64449329120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f1b42fd24---bavedevadevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/lupememadowata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c94b3e971352690431d54257ce21cf01/59235276684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/pekinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=my+world+margaret+wise+brown+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_off0000d80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD80F 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 95edde63e6434167186c5aa28ce5f5f1a115de0ef03c3d5cc486d042fda206cb
font_01_sfnt_off00010630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10630 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 14a518efd00e327b04d6c1d91b7a0e362acbfd603119da6e4e5cb9d83a5324d2
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1