Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fadcecc23f28f14f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 15:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b8a2e8249bb1124238e93eecc0c23a36 SHA-1: 30a3da8e41ee376ad18dabe1531e76b009a07be1 SHA-256: fadcecc23f28f14faac3f283840195cc74054f66fe5ced3d96822503cddf1d67
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Eve online pvp guide', suggesting a lure to attract users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript and link farm structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32bod0vf7ts5gvk8ml5f9cbut4/77997848455.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/likebubezuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/sabogedudinugeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847fc42f856---56393944123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076af5518da6---jugemipetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63265356298dcee0db12fa3c734d9c9/mizowagovizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfju212jn6c83jqganvhk9fv1u/nekumutowadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160af949e31b9f---pesotiritemekosinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a67c50a81a---87597432834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f76db35a7a---defasogezuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/98093136192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1ngp1k4dcgnt78d05fhgjr7ot/buseripasanesutavofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile/%5C/58638633841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigagadidogawodipomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=eve+online+pvp+guidePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1F 4660 bytes
SHA-256: 81ed7f7d159d908fed2662bfd3281f1c20314cb01dde2dc3fe682d9efe5a2822
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF20 11852 bytes
SHA-256: 66976a80214c2581fb64410c5cfa64df6ee1b8aabd429b06024eab3c4a1b1c0a