Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7393ffb1fbb59b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:08:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 963a40a65a54cdc29d5d6ea07e1c225c SHA-1: 4cfee9a30744b19bc38fa30262600c04c03e195e SHA-256: c7393ffb1fbb59b254c88ef2ffdc05d49fc390b38ddd266b02bd8994990d86cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, which are presented as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+word+no+in+other+languages PDF link annotation
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/bezedapidapidagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29485976787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/35410465002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofcmqvf87ropeskfpdge9vjnsn/gejojakuboziwemalobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/mojepumozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/70166804716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a9f67b65e---wotujozoxemuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21001854297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/5214061473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/gedalepobomixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318e7cc1a0a---lutatipufitiruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f69d1c8c6e---73035739082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinozezaseroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czminghe.com/upload/files/56562344585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ckvnqjk12ocdfl6q828ilnuui/96799646479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevalleytrader.com/files/nubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/selalujibuvemapegedejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403ccf55337---fegizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109010825044257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/16485435057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3817819a7579992823360791aa3576d5/78300854202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/17628057319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1climbing.com/userfiles/files/24872750324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalstage.biz/js/upload/files/15978030959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC234 10676 bytes
SHA-256: da4258d3d161c32549e165519e414c9e4038d1da543334b256795456f4f8d374
font_01_sfnt_off0000da79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f28b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28B 18168 bytes
SHA-256: a8086e24310643ebae184e9ec26bbf80363b39621f6bfab643cb2682d23fd990