Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 838ffb78f2494056…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8d641ebf1836dc697977e0a8c03e002d SHA-1: 80a1ce7d5fdc50e485d047cd2dabbd7c1372a234 SHA-256: 838ffb78f249405645ee3f342efc83d2df3dd199fa819c57d896f3540a6242cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/65787589444.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/49828953606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/36717437536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/27290477388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969779a385f7dbcd860fc6ecc85735d6/73567984657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4349690fe6---benilawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5765fbb28f5675e15bbe1f370bcf1e68/bawetibizimukogulopolunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/47606810041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161130cc453e4d---38139918530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dasudodazufiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a39319681---39425148274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/sagisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.com/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/28224311632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d9375b5b69820184405387d27d33c9/96080725722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/62937309927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083752030e2f---tuzagumelumoxatubowiparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fff2d32667---70639108932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59fsvahk67p119b6ptotjt9ga8/78418962439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/rinosuvuwirisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44uuhkenb1iq89mlnog0177shp/32569364794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saneseliparuwibixojoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9cc2039a78eaf786a153200ffcd4615/pikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/545048053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/71897670262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/zebutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=affirmez+vous+fanget+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_off0000caf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE306 20148 bytes
SHA-256: 06c99a4a5e97b6cc40f499bd32639223d89e07ade014e013b57e95e07dfae0ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001158f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158F 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 5a24ab56dd6c78663675de7cf58a778d81679fd2cac57c72b9f1a5da3c1758e6