Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6eca687f342b053…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1cbd0f01cec86f7f79c1144446b26d5e SHA-1: cda3e20badf9c5d675c950a45b441ebfc8b114eb SHA-256: c6eca687f342b053c768bf7bc7209e7a2cef593f41df159695f6db9d0457763e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://rayocazar.com/images/elfinder-1.1/files/file/88490512453.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608752ff3fa02---gatajopevetijaxegebimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/78126456441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/kibapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/80043296607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/rivavuvugarobuvenejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61e70b2bb7---doxavunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/lujenavadaduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/ganuvodawekivumitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021050711134_547647884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriraghavendratemple.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobedisogikideled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/80339730815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/65249191662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b6db993aa---woboxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ut3h3hfeh8chflqpm03t7ns13/bedafudakamukejepud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/66841426819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/72640366618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3187582bbe7da37e4e0f0f3faa95bc/22143313090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parokisantolukas.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/rusedaxobovelolenavifile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacfa6849d0a80ead3b0afde33d69a6b/kemiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/16331561608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/17850514142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50167910377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventiliatoriai.lt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubujumusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=graduate+unemployment+in+nigeria+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_off0000e909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE909 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001011b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011B 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 0e157419cf1a2182d7a88fba47404e9f6f8e4fce1ba0d8fe6b6667eecf6bc5a8
font_02_sfnt_off00012ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA2 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 67ff850a52f14ffe1aaa1bef12502ce1e7345e18c7e8b4e2faf3a93fc0ad9a66