Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdc5836394e0f79f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:29:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: faeee155f86e9f63182f8123127ababc SHA-1: 61245dc4a85e271ffa04bf6bb7172b3a92cba367 SHA-256: fdc5836394e0f79faad49d0f3cfdb7106d065947d57d4097e604e1d705891a77
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code or facilitate redirection, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. 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://tulga.ru/editor/files/94465324790.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tomaszbizon.tomaszbizon.pl/web/uploads/files/feluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sms-dk.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_34B53A427EEFCC68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tgvl.in/uploads/fck/files/74022820836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjaproartis.pl/javascript/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dolewenogeruvevumuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d1efa3871---lugowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojowalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/lagodudesegakitadufafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613210edc557c---pagujepinuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/37875638837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radioevangilereal.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xewodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/dopodomovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hp-cnc.de/uploads/files/gizusugezopadute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/75624734576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeredusebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/nukaradefesibifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/7974112402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d42d2c42f66bf4c40f0b9d19c21de67/26420237594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/labimukifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabaxuketakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161466dfbe6c8c---81674188997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=navigation+drawer+in+all+activities+androidPDF 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_off0000ca60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA60 10672 bytes
SHA-256: f7ebfbce6e18a5a39d7d7d77b1a333d0cd341461cf28a7858027611cb1d0798b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEB 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 3b3481ec5bfd27ffd4bbb93dc79d70b06eb611022a4ad155cc62474fcd2701e2