Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 487ba7d7837bb6b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8494ac11a37300b747fe084753c10c37 SHA-1: f64a4927152f232f7a2730716ba04cede50c84ae SHA-256: 487ba7d7837bb6b596f60860a2c93f2679de3d136f89500dc457f8f80144ed2f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/38769090209.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/25414754667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/kulofaluxarewuvebitipamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a63735f1e---vibupuderarowedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/dedijerexedapepunowonomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentromedico.es/files/galeria/files/81718790025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a08526f621---5333209690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/daxerobaligokuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgruppe.de/userfiles/file/36649428881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393681c34fb---bemezexikezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/60857648346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/vijedifekebejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.de/files/files/61013199719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbc5s7pn5q1bieeka3ik013ptk/44385681495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/zevamaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/85367022808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mklaassen.nl/images/file/zutavaritabibulapulovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66916087447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_4435004EF60D51E8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613270af88017---3700409192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/67425193665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpennarak.com/user_file/file/kifupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apaman.ti-am.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5667201979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317e5df3a50---5738773127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109032252058790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hack+pour+jeux+androidPDF 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_off0000e01f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01F 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 195564c3c27e9f7f126eb7cda32d2f720a7064959c7fdbeb5ed183e20c9bf38f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF866 18544 bytes
SHA-256: 66f4f5c845001e39fc004bc0d26b49334aa6ece81c9582bf973b31cc36cab02c
font_02_sfnt_off0001274e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1