Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9333d1b53862722…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:06:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ba50100fdbc180adedb2c325cde06b71 SHA-1: 8976fa9c4db0264addcd58d83f0cbf7f5fc2545c SHA-256: f9333d1b53862722ea5e80d2d029ce598b3cc2a22d669f824a1ae054a4421e2b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

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 https://pvesc.vn/uploaded/file/72091756429.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/15521221690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35006060842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/xabakelotevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.martiusstaden.org.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27636359876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhl-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavirozenepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_10133A5C0F48DA46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/baxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/45596947658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db5ea5bb57d46355c7dfbcea2e44bd7b/11859651726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/sapebuzuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c4104a4a9---78600624400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf534372e8---33839002031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210904191654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/fitenomopovamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43677921121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0888c4595a11d8a01982f868d1e29ea3/48426004859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/99623209115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinismbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/94193957114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71185551868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/96707067885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skene.es/userfiles/file/gudolotisowibobarezixuwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/somowawekadatadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=come+vedere+il+calcio+su+androidPDF 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_off0000e3b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B7 17428 bytes
SHA-256: eb7b5638d72be8fe866e3a5d0b0271fd025563ccb31a29b36170dadca55f2511
font_01_sfnt_off00011156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11156 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001296d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296D 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 08c8552316879ebbe0d17363589deb341c3e6ec3a575660481467278f2c8dcdc