Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53bcd680160376f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 06:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e519392ef3b89c14405ac6ad83ee5d53 SHA-1: 89f731bc75178030c3c9bb252588c9ad9d218a6e SHA-256: e53bcd680160376fb08abc474c22b60d8b8a16cd6cb82627d7250971f9a0b0c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for malicious documents. The PDF also contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafawobifimen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/61115624952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiohrestomatiya.ru/content/file/57596625674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seghers.kr/data/editor/file/15330783986138a1ffbaab3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5fbf60ec143b573e05621647f0e9c4/94410215442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/64962557423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/2261087942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/tibibatenesapofoxevanede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202197335284190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongsimkindergarten.com/upload/files/94208837702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e41043f1e---buzamoxavojoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4c9c24f7ed387f7682dfb1055baa40a/mexoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobameber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepusadazesojigamufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-fuji.jp/js/upload/files/39239270077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurdagihaber.com/resimler/files/dufagize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/92429548109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/4597043454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/4140719957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/napitenuzuvexafodafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/jukobenaledan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/16594730351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/20495949756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/69898017521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/tubigapekulatiligimafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=buku+sebuah+seni+bodo+amat+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_off0000d80d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD80D 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 679ca49ee8734bb36556eecb58516074f47218d8883e1ceb511a3e52f2cf5d40
font_01_sfnt_off000104d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D9 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 0211a3e037d8a8da22ccce438f3350dc3decf7dbfc4bcde2bc1dcfe2b120d0ff
font_02_sfnt_off00011e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1