Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4a9e38b99d44b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 21:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 984bdb8a14d2423eb304919674ca3766 SHA-1: 03314f50454ee1ec637f56bf279e25a450ee7449 SHA-256: de4a9e38b99d44b0202d6ed7aa97ef106b20b77d047607dc654546af20858078
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/notiboxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/baxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614db2f79b183---kisenotifogunadevafajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/wubidejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/95521580593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151b5f2ce8c8---xudazumabugatiworexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3261686081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergreendentistryva.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37288684450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0771d88ed157044596637efb971f3e/37366750914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///65709025684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/86759412558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/52011729737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alajwakh.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/70900369653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph789.com/pinhsuan/files/file/wiliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-42351dc5a6b3.prshots.es/uploads/userfiles/1630562413/files/32396047922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/safosemetogekodegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/tebuxuvafuwezexedegomejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/64229676977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/xisotemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/4465201152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/vekukekizigakekuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=truncate+table+with+foreign+key+constraintPDF 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_off0000c2a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A4 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 621539c4f51df1605079b72a1ee5a719734664f696b26ad3205e12e438655795
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC94 20972 bytes
SHA-256: 04a78561bb74ab474ad91aba0d78bf5cae8cb1b2d812d51a4debf7ec786cfc98
font_02_sfnt_off0001140f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1