Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b298b8cacebda38a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:25:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 606f06e981c9721a10b8fe893a4ac562 SHA-1: 7be0c37a2101c5a04d1cddbf97bf8bb4499154a8 SHA-256: b298b8cacebda38a9fc6fe0f5071ca7ed01462ca6677d61ef1d19d5c608f2740
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 WordPress sites acting as a link farm. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, specifically phishing. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to obfuscate the redirection or initiate a download, contributing to the phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6165ac969248ca2fcad91ad4bef24112/74626035637.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610312e942220---terafakaviluvodinemoreleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newmob.it/userfiles/files/zegojizabadodovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/xalewineveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/90433690091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/11059669707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tufodowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/34026154756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/37645170509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/88680092778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611847cb56a21---todufizikipigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/raradebiduwovuziwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/jugasofewadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/jufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9b5fea131---roxekuxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/98201727022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/14470122423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6397n52nrcskihj2vs45c599p3/5399296468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5114dcf284---29112478323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62kbeluha5b4lhlda3k5jj2ee0/xosekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sspvjd.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210806_6CF2083C1CA2AFEF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/busasodaxuruvabusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simodazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=meter+to+cubic+centimeterPDF 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_off0000cf5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF5A 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 1032437a171a756d86c9851ae5fab9f53261e126a3ef2618029e64aca5d37712
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB96 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 38c4540abdcd5aea251fdd3b8848b74ce08439b4605c9deff909ff09ef4f7653
font_02_sfnt_off00011295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11295 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1