Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc421d17c844cabb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2bd5897d261d4f400ea1cc8f0fb0edbe SHA-1: 450bd6900ab4356d3a7035f48a0975a5d1244e8d SHA-256: fc421d17c844cabb4bd7eff9a43c5c72605689438400986d87eadf6f4cd20a7c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer, likely to facilitate further compromise or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24085552998.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/82806452616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwaysthesame.pt/site/upload/file/57048386646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bankerz.in/qpic/files/23462049587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simpangkanan.com/contents/files/36697336951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ramseier-appenzell.ch/elrada/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawenigedaripiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/19115583639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rinokabasali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/mokodamakebipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/8663955151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swaarm.de/app/webroot/upload/files/rugumeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/4629478755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee6b2959a5---pejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613987586a002---jakoniwizomipojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202109/file/210906234625563677x03pzmol3xh9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papierplus.pl/userfiles/file/65593161391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgzb.com/upfolder/e/files/20210909195330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136abe98b2e9---ragiwarupukalikeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78462718069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/13678683420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/73614997266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/6620761304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+deleted+notes+from+android+phonePDF 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_off0000e2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C1 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 8a50613bb76e08593d710509bf74f5dc09b15afe70caffd0b4c4ea4d6f66ddec
font_01_sfnt_off00011064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11064 11028 bytes
SHA-256: b5286716f0fd4e5828effdd5af1703a6fdb6653aa42f1476aef1a98d9b3615e0
font_02_sfnt_off000129da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1