Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d32ff70cc366646d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 09:28:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe474c9c7429886be871619d9d714779 SHA-1: 9a7b51e2000325fe664f73a3cb2a90c499832f80 SHA-256: d32ff70cc366646d5d777dbbc385e6e446545fa481c07c17aeb39ebaffb1be6e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely involving phishing or the delivery of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://kaus21.com/userData/board/file/zakivilodinisuwuwuguluzut.pdf
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/86969172427.pdf
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/44458650338.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8577ea69b7b1ae41b582ebf0bd5a550/74958326769.pdf
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/97890899392.pdf
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48574872337.pdf
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/mumunat.pdf
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/97656340632.pdf
    • http://simsvizag.com/contentimages/file/pakubemufowuwuwezivopa.pdf
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210925_4A18CB396E9A47C1.pdf
    • http://sunmoon-glory.com/web/upload/files/serevuwawituritulurixatul.pdf
    • http://anhhieu.vn/hinhanh/file/kowipodafogifibi.pdf
    • http://maychebiengoduykhuong.com/media/ftp/file/junopoporejot.pdf
    • http://w3-japan.com/js/upload/files/21049150222.pdf
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89181023335.pdf
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/24191139163.pdf
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109100453047709.pdf
    • http://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/34280549647.pdf
    • http://alarm.pl/userfiles/file/robumepokizukogagop.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614686678123d---85475359280.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b971819088---15479552136.pdf
    • http://marienoellebermond.com/img/uploaded/file/nuratadevinonezinoji.pdf
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitefozivopizogedoxewal.pdf
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/11340725819.pdf
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/41465090277.pdf
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/detedekagamefop.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=names+starting+with+aj
    • 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_off0000b2ff.bin
141761b6732b6e558277c8706d18738aad80ac3400a6a8d0a2cfaea0c4a302e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FF 10580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000caee.bin
175c859d27804dec967ded3cebba6aff65670b7e75e9b96f813e42e0f39e5159
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAEE 16604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f561.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF561 16792 bytes