Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d32656e8c346a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 14:05:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f9ed8a0c69a18eea86291c9e9476eb71 SHA-1: ddddedecd1d778f07b535a447df9c67f61e994eb SHA-256: f2d32656e8c346a40b56ebf7e0df9018e1311e9bcd1c6bb510144940fb13f4da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through a link farm. The embedded JavaScript may be used to further obfuscate the malicious links or initiate a download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+together+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/45328586195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/13805112132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5l2eh6qeeb7tubm71cqabb0ij/xefuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/90384731562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/64728942970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/71366717953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72002c31e9da01eb8793feccec0757d8/87443831195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/29218841485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/26910603338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/3668555589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/74863255985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/jibijiwidowusovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69486670370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opc4uca91b9m9hu3t43npvlgi6/robufasogelide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/427629585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/tasemimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amigo-shop.105h.net/upload/files/87724444666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carshopm.com/js/upload/files/sunevoroluwekasozuwetujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familie-schiecke.de/images/file/kuvutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/pizokevogalesorasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/27344730658.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_off0000afab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFAB 15440 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9680faa62182859ea769a1d6d17b0365f9b678e13af849759d405bd4941dd8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B1 10368 bytes
SHA-256: c9a42e52107beaa53e90d22cedd301f000be7ce51e205b65a50d136d5c0473ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000edea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1