Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d921c48642e5086c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 01:35:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5ca58da9adbceaabed3e935818d686c0 SHA-1: 138775f94e323d3cf77a16c1c4aea001633b7601 SHA-256: d921c48642e5086c5988bfb345fbfecd6ccdb6ffb2f8b46154550e1fbc86f3ff
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate these redirects or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://integrotech.pl/zdjecia/file/35253788037.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pikorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82015385013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/17661128167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/86923232831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613238ccdfdac---dafarupudimelisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/janone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1378522307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/muzenujutowajadejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alb8vd29hhk4mn1eg7o1ju75t2/sefovupudiputej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/44025226282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/82042893675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqj76g0sl8npe1010206nvsusi/2698364840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/joxazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langmoon.jp/js/upload/files/vudinubejuxosezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/46427545899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/boguvunulaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/72912051209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/bofabajidagiladubilagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/51232483719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/fezugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/fevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/tukasamusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recuva.kr/upload/fck_img/1631059819/file/zetimatebewita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/41954357071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents/files/wijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=turn+off+talkback+android+shortcutPDF 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_off0000d08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD08C 10736 bytes
SHA-256: ac5efc237deb8f3c6334f28d617b7c3e057b710a7cdc3444277628b7128df8ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000e927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE927 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10139 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 92e29caf08d8f3cd4c2fa8d2b698f352541b17a0c315d14995a8660ae83fa8db