Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 347d4b77e0057a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cfcbb9a4a17c5d1faaa7b0ff7c2c85ab SHA-1: 8e104523b5eb0c6f31869de56c5da6b748c6b4a7 SHA-256: 347d4b77e0057a9f6ed94c684e4c8e92fca40160146b71036fff06ce6eff2067
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern appears to be directing users to a network of potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/jejusibekok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/11593734790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733aca150f8---mifovopupefaxiluzedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/tovawebedajejugilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/23216789682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/30075335144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a76d475817c46f75d5e8aeb01f8d0a5/13125524979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/lewalavekawuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5mm4j6c83ucja28b9oqs3scp9/zukigufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69097005828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/ropakawolamazobanuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11cb70b251---90899004757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqc55lnud56g21flssaq49fvh1/matosotarubopesolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservativista.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23922631497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09cbba08df1540407da4a1ca4295cb86/zubigama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39953589121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/sugotoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5a883b77c4---53707366917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/mumipamokebixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607057448d86e---xululijuwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48248357638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=domains+of+human+development+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/rosukosifoxalomedik.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_off00010731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10731 19180 bytes
SHA-256: 6bf74467b0f733258613c6043c668ba91481cf7efe5452211351ebba48c18f8b
font_01_sfnt_off00013886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13886 10832 bytes
SHA-256: e8cd7b5a4692c97aa1652b7eead5bb7dee2a5d7f76e2a91c111fb3e508f649c4
font_02_sfnt_off0001514e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1514E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1