Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd5825d936986682…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 35df7e3ccb20acda7841ffbe0caa86c8 SHA-1: 5213de810da58c457e0108d0465b8afc990c43a9 SHA-256: fd5825d93698668221be96e9faa5fc9b14fb80d6e7f56b0553036372e6e619fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests potential malicious scripting capabilities within the PDF. ClamAV detection further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samobelakevetadi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisavumajofozerirufipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/4237392576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/miximuwolilogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexukapuxabeliruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5178543245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/vagubakifitonuxitide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/kulakulatisabijefaroxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/50644634628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesandsons.ca/userfiles/file/bezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/gajoxowugozuxuzosipogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d142b9bb8ef5ff9b73f4a3c791b72d98/73331338926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/66904235877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/12456912835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swissies.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodigisozapowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiskind.com/filespath/files/20210904095905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imahima.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanatafuloxaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/9695017072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/putofipidobilixafuxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/63890297924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/sojumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/17175782154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd30d6e5678582c3a01ba2b914ef500/26294732449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9794d9eb5---tavone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/96318708919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_6F101F62E5E0A87C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-14/20210914104731702853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=2+player+io+games+unblockedPDF 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_off0000b657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB657 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 443431d0087c3b05d4bbc4b61b969b40055bad32038c88b7bb574b4c17631762
font_01_sfnt_off0000d041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD041 14856 bytes
SHA-256: e3a8aabded2c6b56e8edcfee603768040f93465ce0c47452c252d95d14469fbd
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1