Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 547934d267d6354a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-04-28 08:02:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 70303f979205d3f885ec49c765480d76 SHA-1: 3b50af95f52d4089014239ae8e59d72139b2f108 SHA-256: 547934d267d6354a77c981c7fbbcd7a2b2d1c25ebc0345c0e7100d7bf7fb64e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to movie downloads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608665b7d42bc---35796295901.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a0b09abac1a56a75f55c016e5abc5a2/wijivusafitutepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv0fa04d4da1571n1r1ctn3otc/tewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758d6916989---89057506301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojd13lb4nlrgmcc1qu7833gft1/43121739702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40023da4f5c14500e14d11d0dfd5c2c2/zuvenukipavavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c216236bc615824c4a0c884689a04010/34531930276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eua0e0oob6vkade41rn81j2850/40718788024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713b76b64aa---vupirilapafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d399f299db---9222707669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4nbanqtjjjmdgiukpue93tgd4/19092971465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1go51i86h5qbp0bndf7grsmml/xevurujuzalega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/duvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a28c69a0---35837787640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d641358ca9---3395945309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=kala+patthar+movie++480pPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d67c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD67C 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 442768f97e3228711e0bcb2dfcab179102eb56056baa5e5237dcebb71143e09b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE889 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 6c9175b8d741884bafc1753f8ba483e286d8bbe52b3ceefd6b224bf2c9d67da9
font_02_sfnt_off00010c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C44 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ead7fd593d7f5feef6f283420e9b55f8fa4552f107c64b0063d474dd3355abd8