Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 663bd2d9001d8384…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8385a05bba314a2dcad89924ba70c1c8 SHA-1: 1710b24245e7be8d7523dcfec44a915900b03229 SHA-256: 663bd2d9001d838489871a98de1316ee65ef930433fdd25334f3a23fdd2f5b77
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm designed for SEO manipulation, likely to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the embedded JavaScript likely facilitating the redirection to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/12726996362.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://megamento.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/1131031352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65846cab21---20742291604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.sk/upload/files/tezusovetapikuwikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/zolanutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefejarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/72408926000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factory-01.com/js/upload/files/90381459006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/rudomufivelesilesikube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24hrsniqe9r2ni89mesi7j9cin/gabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/moropeforerokitijenone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zesekagizudado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/dakirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/59481324682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/koganakopitomofupudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/losoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/nukinozifagirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodanaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51395958213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12076782573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82f6a33f05---64426312890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/81051452600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db47bcf2633---13648333914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5a0e5e7fb6eab728ed47d4a3451cff/64006469342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/texolibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a45a4b77992ff8f9c310ece1cd374c/88363116770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sheet+resistance+in+vlsi+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_off0000e5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0D 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 6f4af51363806b28652764d8e9a080219be2e8191eb10b5880ae8f0bd783aabe
font_02_sfnt_off00012b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B88 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 56c49d67a3f64cee1bf2b515606be36d33f7f56aad8c56d7c98fc694f7f0bf97