Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb22760770126946…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3f666f7ea070ff5a38a2e51c7628fb90 SHA-1: c58d144baca41fdb0e36a866818d18fede93df8f SHA-256: fb2276077012694670ccb2ecf905d768988dd00ab10ac3774635cb12356757a3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites or download further payloads. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms and compromised upload storage, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious intent.

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://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/gawegugajeruwabixez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4806332094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/puzodimagumirufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11396dbd7d8a44623df99ab111b29bd0/97824054151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/wudiber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/lujeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612524c2c048c---10770337134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/wefipexunozeromaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/tilunufosasobuxileme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/38144000730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af26a9efd85---47547494517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/05/file/202105161609248800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnorajasthan.net/userfiles/file/tusijaxosifewebeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu429o5cjlfsbq0bs51hjmenr1/vejaxuxafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5d9rrus5f8363pp4jsobquvl2/44148129472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e2b819e85---75006563710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcfc1468df---78080631125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/948423634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161123073e73db---40322114319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dca00344f7---bewobifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e190a69d22---44453615197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/37593264106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/96959023642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2eafd9cfa36e8194dbe35f892cb28a0/20854160902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/tumumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=house+electrical+wiring+book+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_off0000dc7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7D 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 1b3e05bcc8e7572fd5991a3779341d32fa84625d5071d282aa0760dc28f5c867
font_01_sfnt_off0000f679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF679 17508 bytes
SHA-256: e2c678766961330ef3102e2bf6681589d18f85e67082a8a61d10888d0cc6f781
font_02_sfnt_off000123a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1