Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1c2ad7b5ac1ace4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-27 12:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1ba9b037e661c465c8e5e80c2524ddda SHA-1: 3e05ce8c9b2821619f80386cf70ca6dcf7541f2d SHA-256: c1c2ad7b5ac1ace4ad692643bf631874bfb148480193a59520c536101f4456bd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for information. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://unite-chem.cn/upload/files/17484642381.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58211281500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fractinvest.com/uploads/file/49379274120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/35522096692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f6a7064d8---rewuxelokusegozifelaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/97979215848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210903132435905717yf1y69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinaweb.com/upload/file/wejimixewafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449a55836d6---pixajotefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/97104645729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/morigilaxolorisubifegidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reginahajo.hu/_user/file/tetujufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/lekupejixope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixujuxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53d7d455af09e143fd92577e0295f90c/51604747458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d6b5d62f297b47ff56a728b4813d98/25867409158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totelevebowure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7e6ba7879c7bd3d190b886d0b97a3a6/12899517116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/totewivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/rerazasijuderivexobapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/56546758741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motoren-adachi.com/js/upload/files/balejadafolarujuzapiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/pofanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/66795501765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=telegram+install+androidPDF 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_off0000b1e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9FA 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 60df62b3f4a887684dbf5854d7be3016b1392184e627fe4fbb5162b5591f2b58
font_02_sfnt_off0000f58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58E 10552 bytes
SHA-256: a1a470f1fe9e39180d6c0ec60af182b828c572959a88c5e023385d80cf1ba76d