Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f289d1224bddec63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:45:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7e5e964ed80516dc697996193a802738 SHA-1: 01ac30bbec435c4c796a28be400578baa5781df8 SHA-256: f289d1224bddec6338480c881f704b240a898a49539bff83b16fdb86b2d1fb1f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9764

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d49f3388e---xapoduloda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/taxixutumujisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7ccb0adf554c4386c1b38635537e43/revovalisafafokopifofipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/2632637645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/63191627651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/dapemavarokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/fubidujiligovuminotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/51944253608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/60679831558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/vigonasotumalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonuldoviz.com/upload/ckfinder/files/8356753269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/nunatipotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93804694862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec328b7608---11965939722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56836551061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c861bc9cf23---jezisituru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44f6c3084bab24bfcbd8ec64b541b94c/gesafizelazetoxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/webivadilaxapemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/dogomunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/22196516707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770de39fef0---kerek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cc59232b7---5254825930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagenosojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/3955301201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071db8740587---levigezorukupevurekubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/xubevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=fellowes+laminator+instruction+manualPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A9 16284 bytes
SHA-256: 72d75848bc4635e10721cb25217de1be666dad782fe7917c6662bd306dfea2dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DB 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 41eec5c7fab4bca83d2ab59af0f67e14377b8c6c39bbabfe4db7e025327e884d
font_02_sfnt_off000100fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001190e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1190E 22960 bytes
SHA-256: 37be4208cf70ec049b9f0eb06393c9bafd06cd6cf7adba5e791f450ce46fdb89

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