Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7ff75be049a16e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:22:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 74ab370da00431bfa6248caa96d8d8cb SHA-1: a27178a2202b82e28896356f1e041f25c30d5503 SHA-256: f7ff75be049a16e58397af58733c1037c95b5dbe2863bd011291536fb9d3e48e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. These elements suggest the PDF is designed to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a70af9b6---fijojobuvalifepomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhkargcrj6eg2iq3rfg8qdlchh/dobadenorabotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7141071b3de109c9b0e10432aef5dd/77197746793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7738349046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210621220621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/35210802486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/6689514258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromoink.com/updates/file/97153668961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d395c1567f5e3b384884c97060551eb/85071847811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41360a83344bb569e17f26761baa4fdb/babasofuwufoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759c40d0019---33937479111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ae6cd679f---25114470557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/45481030016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1137.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunofaxisekataxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b56374540e978701662d7ac272c81b0/mubamisekumelumoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70322b61cae6a8c12c68c0e76197182b/80386601852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d99fb641e0---mukizesavunedeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd6ba84fc0---fukalewitutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430184919826075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16089eb6918765---vudisipotiwisatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c56c5ace1c6a0420f75741740a18af/jileralunasuveraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=albion+the+enchantedPDF 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_off0000b5e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5E4 16540 bytes
SHA-256: f9a95c8d907eb64ead4cf6f9069fd5002f7c9bf0a05761eeeee8463524ea20b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE116 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
font_02_sfnt_off0000e92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92E 10320 bytes
SHA-256: a96d55e9e558b46417e14f6b1dd9918e1d182674517fd911f078a915f44dd532
font_03_sfnt_off0001005d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1