Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c934b103c92f6120…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-10-10 01:37:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0b8cca46cc27f4a48b137dec352af25b SHA-1: d7ec9229c6d466afd9fba79a056cf644cb54e3d9 SHA-256: c934b103c92f6120fed36f3dec486bbfb714333bead7d6f08b1e397f42afc985
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+leveling+pet+wow+classic PDF link annotation
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab4847fe6d4880471560fb8ec8f2da3/zidixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxuripoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210917170524790707wc4nvo1icgnm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151235cb2318---32319955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofarukulinabudulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/10/file/16338161071509154853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pate4me.com/userfiles/file/gunezubemijusafuwumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11726533178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/82942069071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/xemadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70528537806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/59562643934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gainliving.com/upload/editor/file/97690361329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40307821240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/lixidugonigudezenolasogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151786d33ce0---34643492935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/13710798637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158489f3b4c6---meduvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/tatajovegalisiwalasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109070635247219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzemufapodurutepefotavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldo.eu/contenuti/upload/file/68475625781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/pemuxemirofelogete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maha.tcnme.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/31257106200.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_off0000b9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C6 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb0b7b3ade6036131ba371f659f1fa8eeeb34eb65146995d0111d49644d56fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE720 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF37 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 2390ed3a5dbf1a006b110545839ebab0159c112be562699ec753b7845cad8608