Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d135c97b1216627f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0bb1aec7ab4c58e96ec0ad9d26877037 SHA-1: 91b4a75648f16985127ac26b49c225dac4248f65 SHA-256: d135c97b1216627ffde0ce329c2f510c7833a69f1ad1702db65364ef1206097c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=camera+save+to+sd+card+android
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/33388323172.pdf
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/ludigimab.pdf
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/46425906764.pdf
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/1132843172.pdf
    • https://luxesystem.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/793323648.pdf
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/tusavaralagedagaxowabotok.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07945eeb77e653ae0d6ca2af63ba393a/xabet.pdf
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/najawojeluzimipo.pdf
    • https://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/lawepifodonoborekosevun.pdf
    • http://marktoby.com/akram/know_news/admin/userfiles/file/3239841624.pdf
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/94492231784.pdf
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/30223781287.pdf
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/59978513902.pdf
    • http://phuclocvienjsc.com/uploads/image/files/70521210264.pdf
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/sopug.pdf
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokitiw.pdf
    • http://laskod.hu/userfiles/file/53410701757.pdf
    • http://7m-shop.com/userfiles/file/nisogaxu.pdf
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/fizafipon.pdf
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/31281006499.pdf
    • https://bomando.bomsolar.com/uploadfiles/files/pagerolazowi.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2revi41ura66lcmtis4tefm6q/gadodematafawapimafokara.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133563c49939---56237374362.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d74d.bin
e4130cdc1c42036fadec022cf678ee859d0242dd716ea10b00b8165b32e3e4a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74D 17728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010529.bin
263da5f2704161a1cf7b016374d2568fb1b2442fc8dbe86b4c22d8a3f7e4b865
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10529 10580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d57.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D57 16792 bytes