Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dca80eac6b42fcf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ff6f23ed750505d71996299d356bc9bf SHA-1: 07d270fe56b87c6f0ec512a9b7d1f3f2b7bda0aa SHA-256: dca80eac6b42fcf9b5a77be068bc4e7fc6a5f1f7f203ee5c588aff84d943b95d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics indicate a link farm strategy, likely to distribute further malware or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+shippuden+127
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87635098926.pdf
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/wabolak.pdf
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/54544420247.pdf
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/14962749157.pdf
    • http://mhzsolutionz.com/userfiles/file/14324607915.pdf
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/sogipona.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613465dc21292---pidunumelelurobetabi.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356d6f0de9d---waregenufonupirovip.pdf
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/dumefirujumupakija.pdf
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles/file/buwutijeretago.pdf
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/5724109654.pdf
    • https://codefon.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vidopuperoziroku.pdf
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87285340353.pdf
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/rogerejobenedatepolifev.pdf
    • https://henseltech.cz/userfiles/file/fugunubudozar.pdf
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/84486927715.pdf
    • https://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/65042329358.pdf
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/32919867235.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131204d986ed---39017111607.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613755d902d69---lekalalasawaj.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5f2.bin
75fa3e5a0e5ae4543ae64c21a66f86accbeb4479d48c7c887a95a3e586affd38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F2 20956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0c.bin
b2407dd79ec224391b4ae58b1d638884d088328ae8169ebaf3a4b758b53e7e5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0C 10744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D7 16792 bytes