Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff593649cad762c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1f6ea2bb68beea6febebb455b4c95648 SHA-1: 05e8d044beef856455b23a87d77a5de9a6cc4e92 SHA-256: ff593649cad762c1b59aa384997a2b7d0412811de1e8356f627900f3718ee8da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+planets+in+order+of+size PDF link annotation
    • http://luckysim.com/userfiles/file/gubakopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwidumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/58305823365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/243be85a0c4018f4945c9ad59b5afc8c/gevekovafidetiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/63092487662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/ruxobuvazanuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/jaferizovuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujekezodipevuwavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/weruselobejajavasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/muwawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudimubolowotikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/41333478311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/mibozosomoxuripitokeburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaus21.com/userData/board/file/49913550568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/kogedexiwisozeduvavulexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/90105765373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alariel.be/userfiles/file/vabexaponepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-kajihan.net/js/upload/files/34013135472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/a55ad9e6af2e83b712c0ad28a414dccf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/27344235279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/2604949443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artediapharma.com/upload/files/sivevozolixunetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613335c856395---49737001151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709e8f85d45b6b8e68bf847217c52a8e/45280032367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/46369002394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-junghan.com/userData/board/file/tavapebofejanuso.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_off0000b973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB973 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6589fb1f6708f065c0dd276bee11a4963b8eacc8981b8422403fcd718da108
font_01_sfnt_off0000e230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE230 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc3f2c5e8cb0a90f2379181262f60427831403caff9dd5bf2b86898fcd16f38
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1