Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edd7eabb1eb2d5a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c1dae6754f387238306352c32c6dc5f6 SHA-1: ee1c2a378c9d028f49394e99394293b087a182fd SHA-256: edd7eabb1eb2d5a61f4847435fcff195ed640a2582d61d5574150225cec5f823
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs, including one that impersonates a Minecraft download link. Heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to malicious sites or the download of further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+pocket+edition+free+download+for+pc+windows+10+full+version PDF link annotation
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/88964521417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxesazulojupasiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somalisasesibazuzatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/136a6a383603501366b09200b0df8f96/rutuzopimimenokinuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/wazodolakiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613227f6bb48a---17708005207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninukadozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/godalazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jotopogosemomevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202108311836148402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/84124761881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/14174218056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asken.as/bilder/file/10866513776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/85351201550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reliancefla.com/admin/images/file/forujajusekeromogageme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210906230106_zux120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76514064702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/40163280550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/26434972345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/29875511617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-casainteligenta.ro/userfiles/file/dugunezuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/rexosokabotabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/35655354575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee805db45defdfeb5b548637fe611a89/gafakopuwovebifuvova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48636414257.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_off0000da62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA62 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 300e87975e035a582089f10ce3cb08434430150a813e46ccee3ab630b0743b06
font_01_sfnt_off0000f496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF496 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA8 18100 bytes
SHA-256: bc8a5afbd794e8221d15cb8b198f1b57840aebea09695a7cdbba9fb5264803be