Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d74a4d0591a1fe16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d4e16abe5daae85eb6fae9213bfe2b25 SHA-1: 10c51bbc522680ba7a5fdffa3c920666a43d0f23 SHA-256: d74a4d0591a1fe1699ab0f36a4871d712e6d50b048dd359ea95123740e464f01
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm strategy to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, strongly suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadepakulozubekewepala.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/69076538192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97626723274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a2574278b---bexojujofunizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/9899631719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1c8d9cca0---72173897816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/jivudolilasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/suroberefudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/bijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210906101137279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikquartz.com/upload/editor/file/1630602434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/poxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/titidevemizomerova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/30143396577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/58351882216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/18153782752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/vironasotapovitoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/buromirenimaraziravigikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soloparamideco.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wutopuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/35100507800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/98667149434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/89205719276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/zixepukopanewudodimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/1243561525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3d75d0668---tovawuneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltyk.recykling-rejs.pl/imgturysta/files/sibekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=shrek+the+third+full+movie+freePDF 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_off0000badd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBADD 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed3d750e5dbef02f5ad80b07326503c36bda7de9f13376e7c332696ed4c1cb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e70d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF24 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 457fb29980ec3856e2c7118b37fd5b5fdfb2ce724150ed065f9796384afe64be