Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1ea2d3585054b7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-10-13 16:16:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 22ac8d011d758d4dd1a168d0cccbb8b4 SHA-1: 58d61abc296c605fb7e3d31b5ad6cb0c015bf6a9 SHA-256: c1ea2d3585054b7e676968bfec3db920a2e9a46dc2c42e82f212b909ddb353bf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, strongly indicates a malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support this, flagging the PDF as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to initiate a malicious action or redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/47293229565.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/turuwize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemsdano.com/upload/files/zivebiroduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijabopaliwopotejowubine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allefrgycg.news-read.com/upload/files/jefemelefiduluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348de9b2108---jidoraxutedepubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ezmoving.com/file/nipuselidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fdb2ccb97002cc3a56b898e57f3323a/figesokewadexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161462c9c4e103---24770642058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/64916355974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/20070665666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/beviwawewujebotasebataxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/30998382764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/86044916350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381d3b5cd21---vofosusonuzekezazimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/25170364439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/tajorafeloxuvoridudojube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62351577117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26051245060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/xegimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titibbs.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fc87694591---zexowemezudakina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsap.com/file_media/file_image/file/56396942626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/wikamapobaxolilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/66734263315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/25887770070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/xPAns0MRe5M/uplcv?utm_term=prepaid+expenses+is+which+type+of+accountPDF 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_off0000dd61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD61 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 94429d1a204794acc2f2f075fce18b70ec24f363d5c62d2cd5ead7f179a17b1e
font_01_sfnt_off00010784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10784 11076 bytes
SHA-256: b119c3c66bfc547c927df8e478a554eca2b037d0f2ba36d0e754da82af0924b1
font_02_sfnt_off0001215a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1