Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c996bb4bcefd807a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 00:35:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 81410eed2d1d7290b8a4f8e8b658a663 SHA-1: 9adf0df39e58b523be29dfddbc108d441530e203 SHA-256: c996bb4bcefd807af172603212386a70c636a355233d3df35098c65a648a2290
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or host malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/dusimap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/xizesekomazewedupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c26fd4adba4a9387b74c64da73dd41c/sijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/43011137435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idvirjtnn2ho9ba2i8h19vk6ua/bixoxexutufolizawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a644580c80bf725ed2e5f45fbbd12559/33675629988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815c141be3c---fexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f41ac3904b---45979929356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a752ee34da---31736962936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjp5lsrf6qq0hnq8s1gdipt6r0/41184191917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a752cb584---36957522488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosritual.su/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegovimesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/96262029919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485bae756068b13ed41ed75d73211310/zutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/jekivugaxuvimaruwubovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/vesogaruxaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/movupexujafutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2062c61b16572a9e1db2440db324fde2/jiretixapupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/lunutikitopixusezozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e8983a77a---15519826945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/tegarizawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d66b2e5567d3b54ad3eba019bbd159fb/61902391554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/56801741230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=reglamento+aprendiz+sena+2012+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_off000103cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CC 18460 bytes
SHA-256: eb49dc2ee854a16693f878acda6ae6e26591563c3b9a79015aeda8c9682a7cc2
font_01_sfnt_off00013212.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13212 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A29 11240 bytes
SHA-256: b3b6247b60327ea0e5574624af464e012eddc57a9159df4e550e2fb26997a7bf

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