Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4d1559b2174475…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-15 14:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5730a4b653d632dac8c9962daefc11b2 SHA-1: 31dac16d285e11c07ef0d9993213b809adce36d6 SHA-256: de4d1559b2174475b970e204f1a8cd85cda79bb352c331db9e7c69f592607180
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=8+segundos+pelicula PDF link annotation
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sadusupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhungthuan.com/upload/files/80895671777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089330472853---sagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/kigoxalufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/33018414123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qiutivldc9n162h4l9nac4tuus/vonotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fuwifubimesapuvobiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/poc5soq2aov9i6ts7rvuc98gs3/fisitibeneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/7836999636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/82430530969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b63b92748---36286639739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fdf65a8aa---74644992966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/112a43cc2010a70d89155b785e9f9043/24127008575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modra-skola.cz/userfiles/file/fetovabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/14512567657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/xajikamimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22fd175abc1cfce7f5c9ae7964aaec97/28855643031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/64840727575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839ede51437---23013037326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0d97c9c0f---tikevimusapifiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab57a359e0---zojatumagupiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonfamilyreunion.org/clients/b/bd/bdaf0a3c19eb5f10f0519c747c117e37/File/balavilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfadbe951fb---lafuvu.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_off0000f7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C2 10700 bytes
SHA-256: e62b531287c94e0bd1cf9a546c4d1c6a07b99280072d4912e326bc86d0c7a24f
font_01_sfnt_off00011027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11027 19436 bytes
SHA-256: e7f36a33cfe1379b407c7fcf545c50117c00a49281acedd95d6e5e10e8a9a9c5
font_02_sfnt_off000141c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1