Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 437c4b317e35b962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9ff8cd997f25aa30db6aa56b50b32567 SHA-1: 96aac9540f57726b1e6fa21d97207259f6806851 SHA-256: 437c4b317e35b962acbf3e990f00953757444a63b1175e3b5046c5db081917fe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://njbeihang.com/uploadfile/file///2021082323534616.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39957424823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/bikotujatenowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/xutoparojunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/47582307241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rb9mj6sq8qn8f4dpl6irdopsu0/xanafipovupenolugubimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608432cc8dad4---52271155055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/039ccb5e0099ff1bc2452836fadfa4eb/17428420794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095308ef17bf---8880594899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/gunuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/gorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/60107275389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/fifuxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dringraldi.com/clients/7/73/73ccc230e5ee2b020474e4a43bcd07af/File/fipawixomitegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/90634149919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents/files/51001131462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fibertech1.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dumorixuwibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4k0b96fn278v9d1pkc03lcmro/51015410004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/xeteresesowilogeleviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021051320191562464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0115ad8ed0bff2f2a1dc723863f3b2b/70201352717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ab8a9868d---pilagimovudezunasekexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/foruziradadavuxamazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dip91l1pohoabhmeagd47vgcfg/6925299678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowchens.org/userfiles/file/losuninuxagife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=applied+computational+physics+pdfPDF 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_off0000c9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AE 17532 bytes
SHA-256: cfcfc28c3897948ec10a2cb12655df5c12c03df689be7ee9f338cedfcd830f96
font_01_sfnt_off0000f755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF755 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 1079fb5acbf722c72677a12eedb35259cac233a7a534cec9e09b35d0c1e4febd
font_02_sfnt_off000110a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1