Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e20357ed73bb0a66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 09:09:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 009394f5ab5ff0ebe7a353e0a2dfdf8c SHA-1: 8ec5ba2a211ca072505919993859f79933c16924 SHA-256: e20357ed73bb0a6653d9cc3bccf9ff099c0d8e4373302e629931dda1ffc96cd1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Additionally, multiple heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://jcmimoveis.com/userfiles/file/zimakaxinola.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suresevelopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzmansporzeminkaplama.com/resimler/files/80537088609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64853177402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/fazupunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/72815881779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/gejaridexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realcomfort.ru/content/upload/file/pokijugefenufotixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af15ed1e94---vezinukavamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614696b7d19fb---61647435319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62488813329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents/files/xetami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b27766594d---74229359597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/bidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/lusatinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/dajezotudasupopuxezase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo.iberia.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6602123070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/paxifulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/38971458765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48al5ft0i1rmeha3b3vo8phpq7/99366395253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27638319557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68235738794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/44126333764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56651526747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/gizakagasifadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+geotechnical+engineering+holtz+pdfPDF 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_off00012d53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D53 17948 bytes
SHA-256: e7334966f5fc74d3b9fda3e9b2f4cefbc2c8facb56688377f4f6dda996541c1a
font_01_sfnt_off00015c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C81 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 480e6b80d0754720c2b1cbc1a52c87b524e767ec865999034adb6e8afa9d8cb7
font_02_sfnt_off00017568.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17568 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1