Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd4ce5fa7a95c4de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 02:31:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a9728479e8037daaca34a86b33637f6e SHA-1: 1b43728ce49302e59fa0e199830cac6e2a9a821d SHA-256: fd4ce5fa7a95c4de088663bfe3adce61a9298a9f38ac5ce6aa337c8c51849e30
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/kasusazu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/84646209598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/36953797017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/62352318479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cfd4b30a5---80765938239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qor2krb824rgof3r9b3bgl1vl3/19361478513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/vopuvedadatikovijafutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf47a8d223d---86890572650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/12599634656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/37427806088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021051419445670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8aktmb5ga9i61io3cvku78nr7/kavoxinifipixefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb78d46e0d---fexulugavova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aephddc20ea0hs3fbf36okl6g2/xabuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/kapejosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/dibogodanomered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/21858180550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/44890910497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/vazuxosudivofiwilazezako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/1067857791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074165e9130b---noleron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4v48r1v1859vqnob6bur5qj9g/40305364804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webdulich.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59213104512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2qh5tuq5m5teuv1gks6r1mff1/jebafurafekaxetavadixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/pikofupesitagexuveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/wiperedugekidumisesoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplo+de+ensayo+descriptivoPDF 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_off00010a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A28 19520 bytes
SHA-256: c72ff6f187ab29c87de955fb7cc40cc54eaf0741287ed277e3a5876590b8e547
font_01_sfnt_off00013bc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC9 10968 bytes
SHA-256: e21cac0aba5d17f6454a324eeb892ec60c3a6682a249ae1f989edeb9dfe71266
font_02_sfnt_off00015536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15536 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1