Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adc3594ffef5323e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:03:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b077d36e946b780589627196ef8c9a93 SHA-1: 1f49bf1340989c5518078f443cec01d3fe1919f5 SHA-256: adc3594ffef5323e929db785147ed981c0bccee5e3788dfee12c94c29f0bd71d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests potential for further malicious actions beyond simple redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+android+recovery+mode PDF link annotation
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/64791179318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/latuviga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/4132033187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phnews.ro/files/file/58272781983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417b6f448af---6207375470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xovugeduvitinuvozizedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perechen-jurnalov.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/labilafeguzojixonemuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109191131073793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/82182307398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/93824197695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/3845352700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/62668082114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietrek.com/MARCUS/files/file/39403020973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easresidence.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/35469203662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/megupopizalorarodisotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eff109bd2---pusuwogiwozemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifugojitikejiwimaridora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/29936198210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/kibosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/pubumusepova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d1e6f299925f259839514a67ef19b06/sarijejowazizejofixegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.amyhalter.com/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/tudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pujexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0E 16860 bytes
SHA-256: f0e288c2ac890531bf9a0856b37b3ad35a3cbbb87276178b9012d1a5c8e369e6
font_01_sfnt_off000105b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCA 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef85ebfb002a1e49a47eeb433371283239bb2999443b29b9e32af0deb462a13

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