Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b393e8075413a968…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 06:34:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 48bf5eab48d8e86a975e7f93abef7703 SHA-1: de028856ae04b41e999cff1659aa40e23b5805fd SHA-256: b393e8075413a9687062fde52d6958561bf70a2ceea45eb2bb094fb330579da3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of 'javascript bookmarklet android' in the document body and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggest potential JavaScript exploitation or redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f22fc022ae4a49fad9476a4841138f23/wozefiwivapunowufaduni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822aefb08f0---tufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638293506a97b74baec3efe917593b7a/jijarilemamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/53519639880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900cc7ae26d---vulegoxakofudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bv8agpqlsum588g6j0eark1do/75332566979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080215dbf6e0---xofuvemuloxoguteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bhuh78sqaeknu3vv801h0fcjn/nevenevogepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olh4n5bgqqjdtvia6fsq2bjhd4/39917888721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae93c3b7e249d86a4c4d17e493c2fb3/sigeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886p1t7s9u4upcdc4ooeqgso6r/18684933532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/supixipejufoguvinosebese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bf208d219a41486d040a573f554faa/85338275754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f815d139e4---devedosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6maj93d9rolg6dr1ee87njvc7l/zedolemadejozenujujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e1a7a3d761---94438890633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/52783780254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i83sqkjmfakpqkhqs1mvv1oqp7/gijibulemitedozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5c5db1eb162794d86275c01d3cf192/51717795748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=javascript+bookmarklet+androidPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB2 5472 bytes
SHA-256: f2ba322545c3b7337d9a7b34ea7f208b0475a6d3449e977cb0a4716dbc0fb63f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF241 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 599a3898680d3f3c944d9fcede629eff7ef91f6fe8da46d95b84ac77c552bc68