Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c872d6195dd09a10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 07:44:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 3a1c821cde43d9c3e83c0778142c66d9 SHA-1: 4bc874629fedb55574afc5a633e7eda02d2bb398 SHA-256: c872d6195dd09a104acf35978a53168200e7829e70d566b608e247d54554d644
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a significant number of external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or execution of further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/d692540997ad7880a618fa0c7da58085.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e60eb17de5---sakiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6340017381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/mazodibemepimejabeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/pomugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/43703899130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/81478465674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8m8aiiutjn7o686ab1phkvr3t1/tidadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f245c1058e759ff70fccdbb69da64616/wufekalonemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/tupokawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/xorawanegutenaboxoxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtlkp0nfbvf821ah6nv93jgdjd/muzixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-kajihan.net/js/upload/files/wuzaduvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/jisewodotiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26132912665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/84077598618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa7c8fad309---rilirasirolifosodafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/zilenimesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fc8d5252b6067d30e5d02b38d6f18d/73013133536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cc84c82f7---kaguteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/80781691698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/jarizaxilofuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30461a6256dae8c88f71ba3388f265b1/47283659479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=diferencia+entre+hipoteca+aberta+e+pignorarPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df99514bdbe---8660586939.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_off0000d5f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE07 10688 bytes
SHA-256: bc944473e56a63f7276e9ad7f23cefcc9804c049792fcb707ee75a418516483d
font_02_sfnt_off00010640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10640 17044 bytes
SHA-256: e4a62bb731544cbb731e856e2d0dc87eb8f7ac5ed767fdf92cefb4310e565821