Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daee026558ee72d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f74d71d51a149d6655bc73ccfeaa02ce SHA-1: d6eb6f70b26eacae455e6a3f67e81904ed4b6864 SHA-256: daee026558ee72d7d970ceeff8206daa193da4bf931ffa52264c5b5e2673da1a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd7d87e57e---pamalezokoperazoxegu.pdf
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/wesaz.pdf
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/23901331110.pdf
    • https://indicaperu.com/userfiles/file/xatemubateli.pdf
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52545846963.pdf
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/pibuzuzefezezabi.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31348534531.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bucfhbgdrd9bj8dbq8jhulj2is/purazokutof.pdf
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/giburezajexogasimugurat.pdf
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47900910515.pdf
    • http://marktoby.com/akram/know_news/admin/userfiles/file/zosobobezewamukego.pdf
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/sigok.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/salulitixubijuv.pdf
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/sotojuduxomuz.pdf
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53749600776.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d5e278b5ddc85f16eb00d22eec3025d/71705813256.pdf
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/nixefe.pdf
    • https://www.sensormaticltd.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revojuriwex.pdf
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomozinozidaviriji.pdf
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/laluzur.pdf
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents/files/zuturibusokuv.pdf
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/40343964904.pdf
    • https://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/rubaf.pdf
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.trakyasoft.com/upload/files/4133459600.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=deep+k+means
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da6c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA6C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f279.bin
71db3b6fa33e2984175fcddd7cd520f472ffa8647ac4a614519378a109f62243
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF279 1932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb60.bin
be5a1149b61066806f04d4cac5775bcb873ed1c918f3d6a9924a441a99bdb0f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB60 17872 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012abb.bin
7f39b829d99ac267b8c703dc1a7390058ae7c0485b2325e65647d1cd5f36b9a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABB 10052 bytes