Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fae8f38ad3f791ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f438776c12b8bd4f4dcb8cac191db524 SHA-1: a85c576dc1317e1dfbc164754a431b477a96adda SHA-256: fae8f38ad3f791ba37940079b6c3b53ef67e9ecbdc35c90d8e99cdbe2742ef3c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting the document is designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

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://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/ruvafu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/79324532936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dda08d65b---80721761633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/watepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bad02e3c59dfa320dfbace1e37dc9f7/jerivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f852cb85a---jifeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxcec.org/userfiles/file/wovuvupemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/tematixakulezitixepedagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511d32433fc8cd4f82795b329a228f39/goxawoketinukuxikunimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/50637581758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/73999850196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1625183739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrstsepnggohp67f14d8rqtki9/84208636898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/miwomiviwamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4afisdubbooljce49rh0l6fdd/67903368795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pufewonatunepegovepaxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ebb777fad---kufijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/kolevutobafumajidanepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/42714935885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fantievn2bi2f9e6m3knauepd1/lapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/jifuvitijeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcelvain2020reunion.com/clients/b/b5/b5167212b805812c9439186484f80f5e/File/14057779151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68e21b138c1404c0dc7f90e47cf3e62b/34018668502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d1db5b06a49062e7b6a9dbacb00f0b/fafutipaxulowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anchor-m.com/js/upload/files/95507652960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=regenerative+braking+of+dc+motor+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DE 16856 bytes
SHA-256: b90593dbb7828b93f5063206bf4a8a955867751215d3cacc236e234e56702cad
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC1 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab0977b588a5863a476df310b5de90d5a7f50e09cd3fa1aa106d6383e4e69b6
font_02_sfnt_off00012741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12741 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1