Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd1bbb2d8f2a50f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 19:21:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8d2ff5203255e3fb06c21c318d032810 SHA-1: fb5dd9fbf26f4061dcffab0a3eb2d9712eda847d SHA-256: afd1bbb2d8f2a50fba7e19fbdb38965acbc73e61e0768df9799f29c801eb84eb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The PDF also contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hollywood+online+movies+2020
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/31547156623.pdf
    • http://bndweb.nl/upload/files/69920414286.pdf
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/wukanivilofoxalivawalowo.pdf
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/54491976713.pdf
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/jajexopizop.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424a4126ceb---11904224480.pdf
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f9fae79a9d259482cc1d5237d0a9a9/87219868831.pdf
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjqhmu4m16b6b27429oitd00h3/pedevelupomivotebunodekoj.pdf
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/37141297879.pdf
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/60827168489.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136394d0f4bd---binoxegobadazopexubuziku.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901d760c90cc4fbf869908bd01137ed8/gupele.pdf
    • https://lmcmanager.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapelixifamow.pdf
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wapazubimojiwatunap.pdf
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/16484606977.pdf
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/14665076695.pdf
    • http://nhac.ditimchanly.org/Images_upload/files/83477145327.pdf
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/28904260276.pdf
    • https://yuvasarkar.org/userfiles/file/16174833256.pdf
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/sanomiwejoxemazonagebosij.pdf
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26719648553.pdf
    • https://indiansabroad.uk/userfiles/file/30254638125.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000103da.bin
1d2ad4a727f1e54a2bfd2e42f7331f696992b58e0563f7e821ebe84cb855ed96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DA 10548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011be2.bin
4e6ecbe85584c859088a17af0dbe1657d4717df775a92ff022ea5f99052af11a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE2 17228 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001489d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1489D 16792 bytes