Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deab24d4df012d1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-10-16 17:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ceb274bea4dd99b941c9821fe8f25981 SHA-1: fa7a9b500f8acd5cbdfd9de5114dbfaced931918 SHA-256: deab24d4df012d1cda26fd747116ae1d8fdfa6b46b1c1d62c3bca699eb930bea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The embedded JavaScript and link farm suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=leap+year+program+in+c+using+if+else PDF link annotation
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/xipidalobamisapidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garmin10.ddbseven.cl/userfiles/file/jozodevuniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/70390844850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofcourselc.com/admin/uploadsfile/sojotejitabaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thicongdiennuocmiennam.com/uploads/files/94648936453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65755119505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/dowavafonaxuxidizifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2a789912db265adcb728bb0bd00474c/pokotezujirunuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenlinejsc.com/userfiles/file/58960176405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/mimefejozejikazutovuwibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafeau1ait.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12503958102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/fuxawisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14466091199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmcthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75537480704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anael.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/26058263553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/19230525077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/81786182413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78295640252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardennes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48318569760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/ziranarunagebebiwajado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/sotoruwobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juncheng.tw/upload/files/pazaxenotudisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifap.it/images/file/numufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10fci.info/userfiles/file/sozegugujugubilunugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161669e8b79e72---punip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614db45fa06d5---56322336344.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_off0000d872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD872 10896 bytes
SHA-256: cad9f285f48c25065bd93ab73f9feb2017b3337790fd0efc3108ba6a71cafa8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f19f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19F 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 02294a657b65278326824873b00a06d49f29790eed052b25421ca4f60d916797
font_02_sfnt_off00012180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12180 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1