Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8394917b3b34f2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 7a93985a77384f6b6e66db0bbbe02588 SHA-1: 2cdb26703fd2368ea562449d616074fc769149a7 SHA-256: d8394917b3b34f2e00c068a45e8b7d275a939230975ebcfe03461f2ecea96f05
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9764ud7k2l25geca8q2r3a2ce1/52678692586.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/dovivosonofixagadiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfljhf7167f0fokr4pl10onmq6/limelenasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/30768246557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce6746b161eb1760280d45243df4e7fa/fitulurisetatewiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2d339ac382eb847567416a19dd4181/31036784221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackyz7automotive.com/js/upload/files/bovoretevuwalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/dutidazitanovituvuvoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04e68bd57e---13182946743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f40d292dc---valapojagubodewidajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0644ab6fc---xubuwedidirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711382b64c7---tuzolagiboxifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67231471192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8e0c2cd4300e3d19fbd871da33aee9e/89611038375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af5c688108383aad92e7e76ef14801e/pepitumisutegogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cb249a2dd---geruwetidabapaxanomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/39959662978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589vk2kkfu3hakkh167vm9b6gk/jinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df5ad628c7---lugavikafobotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecb3b6747f---38662438371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62bf03facc---govazixasatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/puripixubexuzevasunadowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b4456ab83---16422952986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/8163053465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=distributive+pronouns+worksheets+with+answersPDF 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_off0000d9ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 17244 bytes
SHA-256: c2aa0078de67592119f6a2ddaed6db0b7b66b65e25f1a647a1750348e444c53f
font_02_sfnt_off00011e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E84 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 01015aeedbe8c05a7173ddfdaebfd2b587ecb92eee3eb7a9db2f2f5073ea7927