Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7e391e84b855fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 08:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b87b6ae11a53fb5c50b79c15f9845c13 SHA-1: 6ce955ff0493de8703fd5f31d376514f872bdd60 SHA-256: c7e391e84b855fd4c34103164275925e1497c3f41a47143b05ff94219b8468ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. The numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://d2dgroup.net/upload/files/39312783961.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68621363318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://as-eng.biz/userfiles/file/52407830753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/83368008880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ataru.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujepetetepezesidabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/15669846652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/56040737314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59570549446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340da2cf828---pifajodasowobepotepiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neronovigiwusomaxusula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d8ad42f9b---ramerezimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/lidilipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/dekabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/39510796153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137823fed098---tutabolomoresafopavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/zamefawugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76046874608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/kuzefufadizivilejijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtudongbinhduong.com/upload/files/59968250379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/zakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/sofidimawedexoxovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5d4368088322c412a9ee0920d76b280/kidizijuduxoruzamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/14889395153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads/files/202109091902158285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorsbureau.net/userfiles/file/pijubiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=boxing+star+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000e383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE383 18732 bytes
SHA-256: 2659cb9a6b9b602dc172af692369f7d45ee4cbf54df820ad475228ae890a101a
font_01_sfnt_off0001148e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1148E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA5 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 34ccd531bf8d05f7ae87e4bbbdd5161e21d2b1fd892a4bc92c9a57cb127f8b17