Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 747383f1cb16399b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 15:16:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e42da3d80202af5efe64bbf55c00e210 SHA-1: 5bb75381df0bf6f80c643c3b421a7bf473aa7e7c SHA-256: 747383f1cb16399b867bdc8ed914121595027337d71ffcf0dbedbb8e888b83f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a title suggesting educational content, which is likely a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=esl+reading+comprehension+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1960343757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/panavufuneduxuwusumowapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810e9479db36faa677f792a58003778a/feveguvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/laloguritujovari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f91b79c1c8---ridulizatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/dibukasaziwudituva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34595dd2235984fb1b2f1a0073da9761/lewuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8e1d18928628f657271f20efa09368/62735485688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d67312d2f4---41257110219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ba8e688c7---regupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/54241467408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/17540768727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99c2d3456e---91423791877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98471a189b144961cafead24552881b8/gawatudenowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8dd43bb37---9225206261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10734 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 518e65a8b346da109c27f8e92a32d9b46a75d1fb76040263ca26a48624706fd0
font_01_sfnt_off00011939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11939 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 76d1dd56554752e1c9af4dd7e4de1432ed5e7f775dd69a96f980aa04025ec5a6
font_02_sfnt_off00014054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14054 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378