Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da20de541325aeba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b523347ac42d73a9f0b053d1b6603ab4 SHA-1: 63ee7e4d41e49dc2ec401cd314a2cf3b54c3f6ec SHA-256: da20de541325aebab5426bb7721ee044b77360c6fbb0b200f321db6c764ea64e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/roxuvumuvogozafijoloxabo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/72644669577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24844062707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/xozifolijikofisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/53293367826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcumaymoc.com/Images_upload/files/51530746370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa58333377---864174726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8918878e3ee88e60b214a531c89e8ab/32476316723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/34927405288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159047b17c819483d1d7b72093fe4430/92991255256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms3kug99qf8uat1l0fe2gn60b0/74901564437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/nokopidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/88142567197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/79235684606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4dc451ba7cf3c1b6993cae1653e0039/68409920460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/tesowebonusezetuwuvetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/35827311704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add333078dc---75407632982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machi-tomo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71461679042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/mefazexudarajupaxadadaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d19dd412f0---82209500164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///gedapebewajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soyana.de/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94943460202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/87503884179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/jumumadidajumufugunoditoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=crop+pdf+iphonePDF 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_off0000c4e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF8 16040 bytes
SHA-256: ad451a6c2a6f457cf1b3f8bac89da206ab8e2f5e3edc0168c2d438f9635c0bd2
font_02_sfnt_off00010602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10602 10152 bytes
SHA-256: a712218dfba8fc709c72256fa247c9a382156072671ace0eee9176ad73fe07e7