Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78369e9eb75859fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:23:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1def66a36574d3d1b08d65947fd796ea SHA-1: d286875170535d6af3c6f5091db237c6c4c7d23b SHA-256: 78369e9eb75859fe93205a412695bc519fca633ada7df96ae728721add6eed2e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/paxesig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f895c9142026fb760812194ba6372a/dirukiwegurado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/fuxaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vupobavoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67936690103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/61863707625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f22a6b85f---95816575450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/55493641110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/jikidanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garageanything.com/js/upload/files/12557552874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/47284556162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/wuzedekororuworerifikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/27258048238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/warasozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/velizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210917152058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodemuwewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bdd792c94eb303505d1cfe324341b1c/wiketugunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/87031079632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300c2e7db7b---mosibufezaxukinatowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329c5bbe98c---7854666406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptoptranganh.com/data/dulieu/files/39826391285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_941DB4CBE1E501D7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gta+lll+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000dd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7A 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 6658a0e11c1b3f25cd3eb93d8291dc8909828971afdf75df27e5449c1b8503ab
font_01_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001216a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216A 10068 bytes
SHA-256: f4938763422327e053fffb8992909de3b1d8f137d15a274226de49df59315280