Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d879e1ccd6359788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-08-24 13:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 68bb8afeffe63897dc26cf686785a164 SHA-1: aabb401ca2954fc134aaa8510cd1958263f7433b SHA-256: d879e1ccd63597886f02414c160d32657ff7c8644162321e5a4a5cc3c34eb526
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to external URLs, which are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/91620367179.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/susodometo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39a60b647e---30487824082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faab0cf27df---jadedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1627988373_413f37bf7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/18842338670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wadamanojawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/rixemeguguxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/40115366146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac9aad09cb---9592748887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/1398107040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soyana.de/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4459033105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/7154198598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074acc352bca---kudevobapezezapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/lipogokasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c88184278---birizexaredusesasanozemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/rewemala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/tokikivaraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rinuxevopisamifate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/52043758205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=calculate+your+bmiPDF 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_off0000cdba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBA 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 2d3498b822794eccd3baf2e316a2f85f0f058f166054de1acee2df4b3b86f480
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC7 16248 bytes
SHA-256: 31c53b1720a241f6649d1a17a3c1b7aba9b944f25b88bd92e1b539b9e1847056