Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 847b3d7b68d71988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 17:33:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 53662fcad54bc1baf1b935c3a5314d12 SHA-1: f1ab9fa099fe756e3ac7f41d0f3728b074ba0cae SHA-256: 847b3d7b68d719886bfe74449e989d513b218b9fa71f8639053709f1c8368154
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous links to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories, combined with a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection, strongly indicates malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the linked URLs.

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 http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/38760305402.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://taketty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xedabalenupurozubomages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faee9a5a89---refuvogimogomevebopemuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607759bdaf219---35126595502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/99765719843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538294e6d43f5fea48ad479d808ee2fa/76864512521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tjniah3vat1tro32vu3cbs3j1/mugesavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080093b9b9a7---vumubefusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/59171276159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2906411712f2f93554837b2c2df619/sabazasidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/93882504245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2a5c79332---vasibumupufixesakafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097de7179eff---12596230019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/relivolofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f365786084eea5b0ee56c0b770c66e26/gemidagosilidoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/divigolume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/mediro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/89887227934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/48790789060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9319663e1---bekivoxutinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/sefagazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+word+converter+with+editing+free+onlinePDF 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_off0000d435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD435 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC47 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 87526285879f580092286de1b9ccb19cb3181431b028948d5338f063f5a582ae
font_02_sfnt_off000117c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C9 10576 bytes
SHA-256: a8f568ae0a1009371b4cdb23e4726560c29e6dabb240245d9127c3d2105f6ce8