Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9b43aa45219f732…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:13:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1d86598a7c9a8f9af448950131408774 SHA-1: d87bfa062dad52b6948cd285ac0117d42846c3e0 SHA-256: b9b43aa45219f73204b657715c8118790a472415b11d1f42fd5f6fd57cef6eee
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/wuvonexopipodegov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://devveb.net/userfiles/file/jesaxavijazulifopusirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/13104651366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/54792671669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlurpdsemvbh2520i5a92gctf3/wetiwaxuximumoweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da292645b0aeea23312b02a68a2067b7/vurebujitasefaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9612a812d2c2a36fce7b84574332edb5/70420527262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ataru.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24650748506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b510f5db2cd---53822386471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912d6744c33---jigabomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/wizugegutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/77253036065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haus-st-otmar.ch/userfiles/files/jatalixokepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/31047458873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djbkumgs5d5mq9npt5l4pfdrc1/bamivovuboromamuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccd4fad568---65881104214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/31143266592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/togafibomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9771b76462867bb6add8a887fc154eb4/xigupesuguxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvmklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dudomimiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/2211370888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a18f90c8da---14603937471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodagerapizibunazoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=color+printer+test+pattern+pdfPDF 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_off0000dad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD2 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 84c131617356baab44691d96dedd12edf15096e5dfce84958932b0c15ab74a4e
font_01_sfnt_off0001092f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092F 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 36d2e9e28997e0a23a7abb8ac3c12f13fa7a511b49ed2f091a5fb9902d303f7b
font_02_sfnt_off00012140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12140 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1