Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6398d84402d8e726…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-10-03 01:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c324e153ea5a3465b500644be9c12422 SHA-1: f535d4886de10b3d5e8c53d6118887bc44326fb2 SHA-256: 6398d84402d8e726ab41c6ffe662b4cc8d69c1a191723805331a98af0823b149
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, strongly indicates a malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support this assessment. The embedded JavaScript stream is likely used to facilitate malicious actions, such as downloading further payloads or redirecting the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/79369455285.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090412044014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05d403d9da0adb433fc01340723f279/tefidisukure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/lavivitalibemovepuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/55608333464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/fopixobiwonazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fedcafb813f1db8647e042f4625ba4d9/28600288917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/77920318437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/79676658913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traviet36.com/upload/files/wabaxonopeselivaxikeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/mipoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/zupegubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/48002544887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/56704578884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/72662125827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/17951663223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mefolabolagekuvanupujedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrobogo.hu/kepek/getegepurabupuxekojilodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/xusafifojemeleboxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/tazaletivolonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/33770286306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/90107643057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15959445999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhsaigon.vn/@dmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufosetejujajufimarefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifofhebsud7j66retl3fju8cri/61368853390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=specificity+of+associationPDF 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_off0000b3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC14 10516 bytes
SHA-256: d2be9a3826c04b0ceec7fdf9c1fa43717e77fcd7cc0bd2637deb3a07f2edb207
font_02_sfnt_off0000e42e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42E 15292 bytes
SHA-256: 33fa7f77919f45ad50b36d4928733d8834908ebcc30b4f9570c2890d7b316c85