Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e42a9ad74b3893d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 07:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 50ce97149d87f842761bff86f7245ace SHA-1: 78f5c99cd6c7f4ea1918461feeda24444159e8ac SHA-256: e42a9ad74b3893d7feefd9de36d9a6dd53b92aea811f30dbbcd1c2ede3a62f15
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery through these links. The embedded JavaScript may be used to further obfuscate the malicious activity or initiate a download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=from+fermi+dirac+statistics+ni PDF link annotation
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210902200150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbdhskr1shbs5h6msflhs0hqh5/gamawofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/53526858469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210903092834_1514819329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/81706207783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/50eb675ad8dd888e805c8b6b9cd59baa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/gokujuvupowopipiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/pidebiver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesutedogosubovolelodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/13108880520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolupiketigekemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tebipufaxefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210925081650_1451369180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/47821794534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/sotapawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/javemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/58937390895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/30421077289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/39110339084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613361e1457db---zedakesuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/21634215287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161489f125841f---latorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitsatodorova.com/uploadfiles/file/fadusunewakuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/64445930456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/lavunubuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fo1vaeffo4ev1o9as45i26f65/69489004092.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_off0000b61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB61B 16808 bytes
SHA-256: d599688d1c23d47f79a378e714b9885ab9f96a66951696a0f71424f222df8724
font_01_sfnt_off0000e123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE123 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 1568afa58655bdf5252c47ab187e1549370bcf6ca9de7d85175e8531d13cecf2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f93b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1