Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a922ccc328a8c60b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:33:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d928cbf5bf845e355f13847ec7e61e16 SHA-1: a77c507c361815747c8eb55317ae06b9b7574e82 SHA-256: a922ccc328a8c60bb2e5c7f3885ee08f99e10702093a4f55ebc0d816ede4a9bf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploits vulnerabilities, contributing to the malicious classification. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://zold-kommando.hu/files/48224258147.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2f11f355fa02158bbc2055afd49366/69377920872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/81147839380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/85855986204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09637d8d40a70a8c54658db7959b2503/40798485980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0606dcf62a6fbce95320001014cc4a70/32561112257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memorybg.net/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50802808769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52426985619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eos.org.eg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87095619694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/nolawesokemotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/xofojolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/71250787932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff00405b9d36ef5e10c1123e141cf06/85034069585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5a7fda8d1---9361973200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20217241410453022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daca5a54dd---85977486690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff333344013---wafebajudujewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9ca0d2a12---gotakidozeguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/67502078658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/rovajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/79159053149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753b45510a6---16453015711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=architecture+of+8086+microprocessor+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_off0000e175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE175 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 6d61d439c28d179c3e18302b111af9339c44c1a1893e74ee3cb5a1b2957144ff
font_01_sfnt_off00010edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDC 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 4e5aedd1db297c8963f725081ddc9f51e816997b436329dcf10d5fa1931c281f
font_02_sfnt_off00012900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12900 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1