Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a812723ff8a280ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:54:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4eb9915c9eda5d789ac0c27ed4c5d621 SHA-1: 8bb349c04b6e4b6c78c7a523ffaecc62ce48a17b SHA-256: a812723ff8a280ee18a50274c2d28d3569f2d7d7a87d9887c219ba84f252d84d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded JavaScript further supports the potential for malicious execution within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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 https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55990537482.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/74779115791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301c82a63cc---68721877846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g4m3s-4p1-12s1.com/contents/files/sojupazenalumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56266b968d38bb10dd5af364d753ea0b/finigolekobasetalosopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/99897376374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artio.pl/files/files/daxopijinagezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/55278890576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/43700332319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/45050303468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwcecckolkata.org/FCKeditor/file/diriraludikegunadola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/45535231707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/41076941422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/vovokavomigujewuzeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozanetiket.com/TasarimAcarnet/serhali/upload/files/norupefewiguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boardmark.com/files/file/58380641869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/86263305663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/17503984193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickerbarcode.com/file_media/file_image/file/47077378236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/384aa9102789c989a2851b21dbd2e595/terijekuwegaxutaxaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/50928914484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/14514937309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/zifutomitaduzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/xuguvijorepogakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70116374191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/nemuwesibaposinokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solo-reisen.com/media/images/file/zuwafolerekomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=game+dev+tycoon+apk+paidPDF 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_off0000c839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC839 16024 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa77ae6af81c0b0d352e6ad1368a3df46643ba20515dc7ee47164c2754bcc41
font_01_sfnt_off0000f158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF158 10672 bytes
SHA-256: b2967696db199b45fa525a92b423f67b21f7ba29dd2291dd6312db5144e19cd3
font_02_sfnt_off000109d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1