Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc8a63f75c3e8649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:25:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 403148e776251c905eb60cbbfa61d96c SHA-1: 1f57891a981e13a9d6141f7ca136eb9f38729f5f SHA-256: dc8a63f75c3e864974ddc673f9201a4f8b3ccae86c9b7e4feb08033d96580a94
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. Several heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/mavovage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/95428326637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armature.ir/cache/fck_files/file/ratodiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitrine-prof.com/files/sidubofawopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/lelatefakewizamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://typeone.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezitope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905052020380720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/judisibamumaguwebitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/sines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/pikanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613575702c6cb---povumafisokatekalasije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5016021ee91f0e0487f2e4542c8af3e8/43360391224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seidels-mineralienwelt.de/images/uploaded/file/48386735176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/botaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/33750092507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakijanaduraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pchfcr9brr9sut5hadn1sfnlo4/16758713767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a1352d299042c2bc85bd59f46109db/94452994063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-tos.com/userData/board/file/voxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsutae-f.com/js/upload/files/31588384255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/doterixamonura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=bad+piggies+star+warsPDF 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_off0000dac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC0 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 7a03e09353d3fca0acc63b15e50c1ae6525a662f1b931a446c352b9d8bb33954
font_01_sfnt_off0000f269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF269 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 67df134668ecefa0963f766084c9441da2d4e01ec6ecc531574349a56c677ba7
font_02_sfnt_off000120a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1