Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d134550acbcef453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 13:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 390946245eb716f246f8f4d7cc94a347 SHA-1: 51c9d0130000abdf91099bc46325820bb040dd15 SHA-256: d134550acbcef4530f517e7beb170ca92cecb4248a335d6a478c26f1e8d2f759
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, identified by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT heuristic, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination or distribute payloads.

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.
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. 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://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/84977743930.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.org/article_ressources/file/bekuzajarotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/povutebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/24186335389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/jafoxebotufajozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/17902645139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraiaser.nl/userfiles/file/foximedekoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/64236936777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/11387446418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sophrologue-nimes.fr/upload/news/files/zanivozuvovipikijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/ketosoxebimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703fb3cb65ba4efaeb9734403aa893b2/93349407663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/51246153266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8sb5h8qe26279q3v7ar6rj5pe3/sezutuvumizokemifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/36956551115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekogamma.pl/javascript/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69021589070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65406031232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a14493596---97134887364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/49866668659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2888e3cb9a6ac5b5298221bffc1ce196/11899208460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/92813627582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/zevigulalokulikulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=lapu+lapu+city+cebu+zip+codePDF 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_off0000b21a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB21A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA2C 16468 bytes
SHA-256: bcc4800925bc30ebf608b29ff46eac056d57945e00b43bd59bdd770320839747
font_02_sfnt_off0000f451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF451 10508 bytes
SHA-256: b2ec9af2b387b359d2784ce7684041b7416c5e28a7c054857025546578682b75