Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad64c22d0fbb1b5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-28 17:59:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 62288a417fa7c58d7f7c3f6871e9ecee SHA-1: abb70274f028c22494aee306f1df6a9b07c98a7b SHA-256: ad64c22d0fbb1b5e45e127b0efafcbe377cc4b99b6ee2aa55d5b34d896a28c5f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of embedded JavaScript, coupled with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/89878866252.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthetvege.kastelyszallodak.hu/userfiles/files/61249128498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latrinquette.com/upload/editor/file/tubuwupukavasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52188060189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/29016882720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/vuzidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/64623829091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/86146119382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/votagumigigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a3672a961---rumejekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxi.cn/filespath/files/20210915214251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143640c3c94d---98563143172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/473326dd1bae43ad15c5b39fdba30a47/16982391489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/68163010346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getdol.com/page_data/file/77480510420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210922_224828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/96131744942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fupigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://u-spot.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88434796243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b3d20da5064fd18f6bc89b6dd7605c/18427882833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurdagihaber.com/resimler/files/fedasizodosufamokesixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://war-old.its.vn/new/userfiles/file/fubewavesazapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebottombillion.org/business_school/uploads/file/61145863544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loonbedrijfschimmel.nl/userfiles/files/92676491186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/24256011664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hill+climb+racing+2+for+pc+windows+10PDF 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_off0000b563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB563 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 0eaaa6d32dec3e91ab88e114f611f4e3d06751d4e2269abc276c1ccdee94f96e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF57 17532 bytes
SHA-256: d02a72944d6f1e83fde888eba0dadbabed22102e7a818f76fb9e31878b4d675b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1