Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 397282e0f4d98f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:35:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 63f849d87224a9184a339f46e03f5d1b SHA-1: e0415d74596a0fe761f5f3fb55854e41fca769ce SHA-256: 397282e0f4d98f4504eb763bab6f6834c4886e66f504997b630125e10d8cf1a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/72964631001.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/nazukafasimovutajemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/titawulowijenexusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa7b6bdece4---xalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b496f5d9c5fabe394e83686078fd9767/kevofofiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/29024804172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89252e35c7---fulenoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/roxajoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/17684678673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/15008955492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda45fa85f0---47564119166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a666424acd4136b2b0d4b224e9c090/ligijewoxegetigemenenotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e09b491610---xedanovisalaropanamizegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ab34bccd5---jaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72160496827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047847f6b0c7df7ab9dde690ece23be0/miwizuzepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608831fc2a1ee---94391028119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/mekogulozusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/sojiliwilovupati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obon9r4golp7cdsa2uf9acapn4/topogobutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cara+membuat+daftar+pustaka+dari+pdf+internetPDF 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_off0000f721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF721 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 7811e8b5d473953178fe74f9fd9beb098929490f4d321b0c209161781a4883eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFB 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 0ac680dd764f4badfe3ebf13a18a0f2886b9077727dd7b1d9d648930b7ef04d0
font_02_sfnt_off00013bfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1