Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc1733a9e71fc23e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.0 KB Created: 2021-10-07 18:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b6d038869d2c8d0394b1da3a3cf69c2a SHA-1: 59486ce6f5e8cfe37c455146b5e2aea12a227fe3 SHA-256: dc1733a9e71fc23ebfb7c7bb9da33c41e62dd0038f2023f02d68bf8e750e11f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains. The presence of embedded JavaScript further suggests malicious intent, likely to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://only-svet.ru/upload/files/wumepuximedodutem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/dowulubosupurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semanbio.com/upload/files/terexabedimabubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10140205805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/79182600373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.perlodrink.com/documents/88741092453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.palmettoexpresslanes.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43762427846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actsonics.com/uploads/files/202109022259516097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/nitarasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/49848827317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/gemetepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152fdaf568b4---ruzabuzokofefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/88674464182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1479930977e63722782771d0c74338/kibowabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bc2000.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/wubovajagidudevora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjt421te504i0gb2mgfvurc6s4/lipakideruxutasotugasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/nutogugikufelunoporezame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/ludusexotijogekomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/68305585955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dae-young.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/xobibejimotasomulotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/71029182509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/6942030604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614913310262a---makufomabesebudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcbeefac9de28fcff939e725e645e94d/bufozubixutedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=queen%27s+lady+in+waitingPDF 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_off000171b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000189d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189D0 10596 bytes
SHA-256: a106b754a14e91f46ef10fffd463c1e0bcf70727bc257ac059b36ef3ffe39a20
font_02_sfnt_off0001a227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A227 23864 bytes
SHA-256: e06fb270375128ba359f29613a23b0633cd198335afb0628853c2e6a77b724c0