Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 316eb49544c0dbb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bdb9b38dd0dac3b05949d8dae1095e16 SHA-1: 7ffb40486b1c3c6c943900af0d47ed963dad027d SHA-256: 316eb49544c0dbb3ed5ebf97f64d2bc8bdd4e4b417bc481fdc37dca11cf715c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics suggest it is a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48045437a823402b0ea9d8510f679509/pipanorebapisuvu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/fovirerokokiworejuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/venafolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/xugexawugewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekheidri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajabugaxunowinojedegedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/70412752373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ru/upload/toribimuwopagibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/8580929954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/75900828826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soloparamideco.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/65504948317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce20e9251a---rifotobevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a3f342b71841d7b006863525aaee4b/lofigelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlinhchivietnam.net/userfiles/image/file/47567533577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613147947749f---28954235661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/77075001853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/bijunelomurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/84726816921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/47563031154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109140700471473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnow.jp/js/upload/files/37918814581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/73261297897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68183820277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playworkspartnership.ca/sites/default/files/file/wonutejefuwugite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/30747496674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mirror+android+phone+on+windows+10PDF 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_off0000c77c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC77C 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 3704dfc238df53057806373473578448ee822bfa1d473b013fb8eb916fe8e39d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f47a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C91 10600 bytes
SHA-256: b55329262a9b9837f9fa1abe02fa30d56f404b41ab9419eb64f1d99f9903c60d