Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f651a93b0661767d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 816ef25b7145296d6a55b769441f2b6d SHA-1: dff8f3684f190cd8cdc4e7368492d92dd7cf4225 SHA-256: f651a93b0661767da6f981600ee7c1831e2a84c9a1fe04b976cdbf6662b2a8ba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely for phishing or further payload delivery. The link farm structure further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/24612702412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/bonovuterutoxixujebofewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dbf3e0788---72408619894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/73844707492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/vubivenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/97373389695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junikuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210901120951_6jrb0u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210919174301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/vowafufuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackyz7automotive.com/js/upload/files/nobulefixafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traiteur-troyes-mariage-buffet-aube-10.blaisot-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85928675329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42741769287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meridianchem.com/meridian/ckfinder_userfiles/files/zinezixiriferok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaaa915f290d48ec424bee4731ce5a36/woraxojozixokuzudefejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanizsakran.hu/userfiles/file/2873694817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/87401903135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lefomisifijinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/toralur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taihegas.com/filespath/files/20210908170019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/24641159867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58365773780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/jelapiwujirawira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c90e5a10b---12858590344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=vsco+full+versionPDF 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_off0000ebfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFD 18128 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd72762e791420b55631973c4157323a131f5c0a0cbf4c3f5bcd4535d23590a
font_01_sfnt_off00011b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13398 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 57073a72afe262c6cf6d87a1002ee2c9441d98a7cb7435fab140bfbc982284ad