Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc137787976c2593…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:59:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f3adc2a8e62f051587c3ff8377ab2911 SHA-1: 9af2167411de71272146ff6e2825a1b207814cb0 SHA-256: fc137787976c25931363a76fc4bad5723d7372ba03ef5531893b5dfac05ee655
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to deliver a malicious payload. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stock+and+inventory+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613131411d421---sawulovuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43304807424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/buguxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142cf7d415c1---85591891407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhac.ditimchanly.org/Images_upload/files/83477145327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/sisuxanedikaxikutofozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fda5253c903763f924013536e0bdf92/nulimobezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piti.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/batigariwavokuwufakijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613123cb4888c---wadoxixowikode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210909151026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/89957637207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/60904566935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.elfjane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodenasisigakufanaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/ligoraxusitukakogurunara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/16223832214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/webonosawawazusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614417f939f88---8389936151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c71343145cd25bb91bc019970d8fcc8e/63989500850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowogegifuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/3915023844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakloboucku.cz/uploaded/file/xibagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36893725639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kufafukapopufibunoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCF1 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 0262a533efe1a8d9a6ecbf13f769a29d62de4723e7446c0ba8d6e7d901f110dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EB 16400 bytes
SHA-256: e3394dd595418901e26f305387e3abc570d83aba6b91f0bf269d21cdbd6ecf70
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1