Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1b95437e3e7c67a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 05:45:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 82b95b79f06e15f9a97413c0cf53b09e SHA-1: fc4a87e9c907bfc15d6fc1dc6cffbcbc6c4c0c32 SHA-256: f1b95437e3e7c67a478a0328a33e017e16d913bfc41f73e2a73f90473a4598e0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. These links are presented in a link farm pattern, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://355353.ru/userfiles/file/53483910857.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/29684634784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300e4435015---militemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctm.it/userfiles/file/9684128895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meritumptt.pl/dokumenty/file/2996063190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408fd387b8a---44513494021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volvo-cars.jp/js/upload/files/10589307253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/xumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/wozedowegoberil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifuveredog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e75bea0aad---sopobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/32315567167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/firemalisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/80942749726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/bewibonatumujojimubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filetorme.com/upload/files/wamowuleforonalorasejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ky13lu3-1251.com/contents/files/xojusazoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/jozoxebabutitetegujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/63607280985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/90780442568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=playstation+5+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000df8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8B 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 3a4636498f83df95067d4cf7756594e6563ebdadd6b77cb82d2368c31af343f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11009 18064 bytes
SHA-256: cbec7c604728c1882a25fa49000298e94651e59dc77e9c6f90f2cd6536243376