Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeef99f6b2d4dc87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 37257d8f4348eac6aa058ed25edaff77 SHA-1: b810460b5fcbe295171a6d9de5958c12035eeeb3 SHA-256: aeef99f6b2d4dc879fa376be1be6cd8b2d6ce963bff59d1741f8a3f378a8c478
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer, likely to facilitate further exploitation or download of additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+editing+software+for+computer PDF link annotation
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/babagusiwijife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintjorisparochie.nl/userfiles/file/48116608670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/17094016840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6366440550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxlustry.ru/img/upload/42991438104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountmoriahcamp.com/media/96988257793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/8846989614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315ef79e1f4---sunabifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138410c29ed5---najazefupofipulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingkangchem.com/upload/files/30116889048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrocare.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77011356499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/polawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/8589764851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9020ce74f27bb6ac5f3f2a603e986817/rudomisakufafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carshopm.com/js/upload/files/wuzedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concilianavarra.com/userfiles/files/xupufatewefemegixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903215838430620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/gamujolewinuramesotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18413817644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovegebezevotazobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/gapubemixovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/39075520758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediasingrid.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xapevugadezizidete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7isee5grovmc5jqe28fr672vae/tonejejedowadubadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/zomejulizevoxudorowota.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_off0000d61e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD61E 11156 bytes
SHA-256: d84380607dd4c02dbd8a27932535fe9ac071234df7f5dd791faec1567409fe59
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01A 17180 bytes
SHA-256: da3077cfb5d0a1ee3a7e3dbd1702a134d5c646479abe571f3ffb054d0904e792
font_02_sfnt_off00011c68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1