Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f178dfd21a2cf3e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 22:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: acdbb62c38dd07ff9cd1a9e814ab23f9 SHA-1: bd3287fa60a1c14367812a1817e4c499c64e2c42 SHA-256: f178dfd21a2cf3e75e06d7e5ef836ee0efd2d6406be0588e0af5fe33fd5dffce
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains JavaScript actions and numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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.
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. 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 http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/36094262832.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/kiwewutudixunetijasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewutewubufatomatadepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/12651360661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/vujegokabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivaco.it/file/2088950100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/93448691307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/95560465892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c9f1973f6a812f11a73243ce3d4ace7/remadekalorefufeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/javafemovaxesixezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906995dee30---vasukese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/866379a377465443b4d83c91b5636e13/42068950239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/48372617170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/wenojobitaxarubuvelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/32149093610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/10547231503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/71561105622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/butagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekogamma.pl/javascript/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51464384077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/43646000389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794fb8baa83---80111417194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9e6a74b93---53456103565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e324af87f9a0c11da34fe600f84f29/79049280631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abee80c058dbeb1d6a26ebc1a10a0506/42307727681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=anatomia+quirurgica+cabeza+y+cuello+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_off0000d77f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77F 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 98084b794b0c5667f692a0cfd86a91c19c4aafc03033df0fe079aa0ac5064c83
font_01_sfnt_off0001044b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044B 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 3c3c8f27c14c5f383ef9060da6c639f238f81087b1e3dbd741f9e6f6554d38d9
font_02_sfnt_off00011e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1