Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8c673bbaf6b2a72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8c925f08e9c7d8193c6467fe8af60e0a SHA-1: b28c5ce3472f25b490024f46bc926dfa97ad7e1d SHA-256: f8c673bbaf6b2a72388f1853089454d7824c2603c304b97a4c14048366e88624
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links. The embedded JavaScript may be used to further obfuscate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/bodafulufuleg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/21168483260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/5071895808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aguito.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakinuligaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/96686972788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/7198596365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users/file/4046929073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///kagumugititupakalizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21224650112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210916042138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3e4c4f64e---76880749506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchonusa.com/uploads/files/97530745626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/nopeveviwilopume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/51591974561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed64dedb3513a859514fa3cfc582f87b/xotosisavatusininode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210912005129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/33997248025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt3t9qa6l7doglrnm0mqbhl9r3/fizibozaxutumunegajozemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/6305577128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aluminial.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadebeliguwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/nupuxekepokiputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/23777701211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/42054811307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=most+populous+countries+2050PDF 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_off0000def0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF0 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 6889ae3f5b80335970616dd31586ea92cd41007f80b971fbe51faa015f7c7e0e
font_01_sfnt_off00010d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D98 10672 bytes
SHA-256: ae2b7c39af7acb5aa9fce1ca6c03372ac3a5ec4fdedec87b5d00e30f858cf9dc
font_02_sfnt_off0001264a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1