Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d487719d6a25aa07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8c993b24a77acceabc58401370ccee86 SHA-1: 282aa1769e231b86150d01b3d93c5ca74e046488 SHA-256: d487719d6a25aa07d3d7e640e856496ca9cee0b7386864edbe6afc812285101d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are likely part of a campaign to distribute malware or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the execution of embedded JavaScript to facilitate further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/vikanikitesagudamuzo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c024224af4fc1d3f903cb0a189c855bc/95847748648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/33572278819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc6720dc6d6b0e12dd3e23a5d0a4859/40582707664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/feguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/18760776024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/34470621164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee9ee9faf2---63137600473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5be65c833f3c19fdae52cec9c1dc13/tunabadedajapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/bewixupelezosipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/24662419156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/25957752107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210909152434849699djasmmsbizlz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/49535739091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/23172174719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agro-zavod.ru/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4030057542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210910081955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/data/editor/file/1491761975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/pepulexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/4099814311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee4224f49c---78518845389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/dexesegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/muduguvarijenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanchang.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3606222942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.net/upload/userfiles/file///rijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/zanozujewofivalevabuxined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/86978883005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=scan+downloaded+qr+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_off0000e184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE184 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 27dda39db2cb6fa46ab6d5957295f1d58fcdca3418947105b0a2b79865e2ee6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B9 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 4d94abf08ec57a98d9c88ccb7696b854622dac1a142f4dff1301a2b37d6548dd
font_02_sfnt_off000127d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1