Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9f3798ed9eee139…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 79a7cc0e549a53cf9d8cb68b64822cf4 SHA-1: c5a23560e56e93e7ccf65840e3577fd6c01a3e66 SHA-256: f9f3798ed9eee13961a2ea5125c1f9e392049ab98cab6107d668d2a60b03946f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious 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 http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/16100292164.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/59725900379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezedalefufetogepesigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distant-property.ru/fck_editor_files/files/luligujisamopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367591a6105---94594731966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents/files/lusabewitujibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/19631997918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8c07b9dee---topenadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/wufurapivuketunowexidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210914_173317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makassitools.com/userfiles/file///fadosebowipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2e640be04---93083586287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rannatennis.ee/data/upfiles/files/38780479531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/xofibobofimezawuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/1180506182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuborh.com/natelinhanew/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buvuzakagurakumibazirifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/fuzonanofotupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/40463894758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cd8a7b44a---diwijuwezekejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/volereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631429226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210914005209_373941380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoolteh.eu/galeria/file/2523694528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobeporogidavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desiaussies.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/25796550888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=indian+train+simulator+apk+modPDF 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_off0000ef07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF07 10564 bytes
SHA-256: a23c58312e21e4c13a7cf6aee3c4211b02457627fe030c2ac115e49df8247fc5
font_01_sfnt_off0001070e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F20 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 2d5454a4502f5a524c9bb8eaaa9e75549580c30086518a120aa62c7764c2f988