Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd65b51f6933efa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:45:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b63792e4b0e579922942f6739188b557 SHA-1: 3211b0ac225378ad1e52776692851e216b51a108 SHA-256: dd65b51f6933efa03aaf5af5e9bbe5ffa5f8fb7330bc4a7b1c449fa7793deea7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. Several heuristics indicate this PDF is part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404925b3648---64022328535.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://areopag-group.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/45420457254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/30033295511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lovebliss.tw/UserFiles/files/7136851631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/66745609996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labmansour.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65259939238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_0F6E510131A40DE2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/92842286928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/gupuromeveguduvagoduzuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etspak.com/survey/userfiles/files/lobabiporate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varida-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivexipopozidapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/gebixejenazesuzusedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/dakugirewenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/81402414971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a92c0eeb326fd591d11a7b33717b443/bufutuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-store-sys.com/userfiles/file/tukiguzovuxaruguxuperoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/67820827804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runnersavezzano.it/public/userfiles/file/28504118932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/kiseduneruvabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.nl/operatori/userfiles/file/15506863790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bckbytow.naszbip.pl/img/upload/files/15316308646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/60447076988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ps4+games+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304b559765c---madov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10371 10632 bytes
SHA-256: e129111144ebc25ea71ee19d04175f2f6a7bf1ccfcc13fcf0bff989a49a61e14
font_02_sfnt_off00011b91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B91 16696 bytes
SHA-256: c23f198740f29a52fa80679a36acece3181c999ce9ba19b3901595807a8ca14a