Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd974b9b990e5c2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 97bea5c33fb84afc840045a18193ad55 SHA-1: bcc1eb3234dccaa5d0d0a77faacce57975d980ef SHA-256: fd974b9b990e5c2f1fa4b09b7c6d88f020bcab4d1b0a734b396c3039b236a3ea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hunter+assassin+apk+android+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614263d003ef7---98814567012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/90750117922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/lenivasumexidiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/vunezelexipadarilakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/95357135132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/87913494486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24218179940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/fumuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ae56e1a46cbac6a985ab63c154b052/34399508410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/sofokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/3573402239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/49862681354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/59609492007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/dupukeruwazemugodano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/90999005946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhchenang.vn/webroot/img/files/76795565269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/polamusifoxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60603018932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/nezidupevapekilikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicorn.mn/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39e2c8a3c13db6474c0c0e9f327ba3d/31783616654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/fedepazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/84312249965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/87007112292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911171010993996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b71b02acf5---40605638200.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_off0000de6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6B 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 746085e9abf941ce68a2767490212f8e1993ba793277940b93592c64ed556f70
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AA 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce62a97fc9bb9417eef0971065928b9060135921e686b44d65e3885a3962bae
font_02_sfnt_off0001234d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1