Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 324f50747f5dd058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:05:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 820a5a3e76ca7192486beda7acc89c8f SHA-1: 5afbf2e8c4af4879ceddfa5e288e0aa7322b8de5 SHA-256: 324f50747f5dd058e09a87c5a18e9fb6d5fc8fc29b3e9d14cf5a00ac96eb383a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to download and execute additional malicious content. The numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to distribute malware or facilitate phishing. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=developmental+biology+10th+edition+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/43812122036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/67785068047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewavofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94745ed5e3---tusafugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c4af6aae6---14518647786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/80797798828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/46596614468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joxavebaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0707970b86---fosiposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/7400690880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/fixamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/effcac5a5ce3601ea421d18105facdaf/10826924527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab427135890f71aca6018302136e49fa/mobotetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe5ede91aa---40443295394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/72671042374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn4v473iccrhp1v0iaqm5l3122/22159955927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210723085601159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081311f44a7a---94147207099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dududibagafefapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/20859190153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///dafewifoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/51164527965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/39598439277.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_off0000caf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF6 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 4bafb240de67f0f1975844c1ecfd65d6cdb55c10df816c95bff19b74dd558364
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C1 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd99604bdb90b26aa24eb55732d9110476dcab8e67e0128f263b5dfd936d0ea
font_02_sfnt_off000110b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1