Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f291a83a34c13d44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:18:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 429012827a66737878c3a55f0413ab49 SHA-1: 9a71fb63a2bf6fbfdffb5d74af38252ae7f888df SHA-256: f291a83a34c13d440635959f7ead8bb7425deb281ed593a3de5cb6532a2e58f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=this+is+dynamite PDF link annotation
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/88829072510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpj1rebi4aqabp1apaoi1neb0i/dilabovonurawogukuxupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/40133733318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/goraralivafupipazagijuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddedb1e6285d24d400993cf8134d3514/32698051565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba51af7bbfe---roxivazuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a797136415004981bd68192dcfdf164e/44459779095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eschool365.in/js/admin/uploadfiles/file/panuletumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/16928161736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2kbk6v04iaocbhq3uusimr2u6/nasali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/68109380837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb1e082fe4---99321081909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9670a2815d22a27f0e87254eae92fe/87759865806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa6dd061a0---36902370071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a64595840ffbab5fa0b4abd60d76f6e/jodawafuzetepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/34218734021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/jurabukunivexekolanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/bixogonetubuponutoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9f9b72ff4e8e836654505b9c073a779/tokefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0fc6c5bee---48709752636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/susad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1622831844garijiwuvopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e060add7be9640a3fe5ec0301ef6ada7/14057987937.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_off0000b919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB919 16624 bytes
SHA-256: 7e449ac839794fa752eaf5f3e0c0b7ddc8ceb640d42872e0c117472638ec1c70
font_01_sfnt_off0000e32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32D 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 173eaca0e2a39715702cbd09fd719ce47ea23b9d8949a7ccc03b55d7ccc88b18
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1