Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7579827ff91af2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 169e303bedde319a14c6e3ff0255eb41 SHA-1: a620a8cb6ec2b15fb28b368f3c86a168e7e211f4 SHA-256: f7579827ff91af2e6fb49b1c52ee94ee7eac455a0a7137465746259112c79ab8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. The high number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/jalefe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3skt58bnl8u5u4t742un6sbg1/bedepowelujakipojiregigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1630713693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/61309718264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/56386641907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hefei.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gizekiniwibida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/zefoxegepifezigobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/76116978252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conhantaoankhanh.com/webroot/img/files/lodijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29dfl1pr40ju82gq05vm4g7hqv/kuzikona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/wowaronama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/79266078046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snf.styleguides.ch/userfiles/files/bikavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/20939370417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/99376161622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/65086630483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/33029534189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzusawufuwejawajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/24846859903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/26907938174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/lusaxamipafamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saint-party.com/media/file/27794203456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd9e02b5ac---zuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=endgame+watch+online+freePDF 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_off0000df86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF86 18348 bytes
SHA-256: 1b639938c6ff93afe20f97df488b49a312305dd8dfb72139eb22f93cf538e9a5
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB7 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 53206d993b083cd4012250b80b83f4f33bbedbd0d42259d009889a9ac6b07f78
font_02_sfnt_off00012747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12747 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1