Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd227ee348e95aec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-10-04 15:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 05fe02d596c95e7b02f20d5c08d34905 SHA-1: c4fe8ee6b4b4f5cb0cbc5ae270c2b8b57aac597b SHA-256: bd227ee348e95aec0ad1f51fc0b04047d7683095c1df6617e7affcfbe6916c24
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and multiple heuristics indicating a link farm on compromised CMS uploads strongly suggests malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support this, flagging the PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload or redirect the user to a malicious site.

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 https://wronba.pl/uploads/wysiwyg/file/53311677387.pdf
    • http://artio.pl/files/files/polobitebowamanebosev.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec30ddfeb20c700475dc060c8c243337/33317563350.pdf
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokegopimokomutebesugere.pdf
    • https://windscrm.net/files/file/wadurusetaduxodezasekan.pdf
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/fezowemuxokikur.pdf
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/kozekanipi.pdf
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/46209111149.pdf
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/74636939450.pdf
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents/files/boxobasitibukiba.pdf
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14gr7co4m2fq2ha8d4pqom22b/rasudemumumugodunavojolid.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155f58531b87---gedupilidivulibadokasa.pdf
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/bugipisoboborozabujidufi.pdf
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210927_6F12896EEB511D51.pdf
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibiwaxarimijoxim.pdf
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/14093705149.pdf
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dosupamalozesataxelokuxo.pdf
    • http://jcsh.bluezp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98804697840.pdf
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53882872833.pdf
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81969719080.pdf
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/88434439184.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3cmjcdfr0pgh3p0h49p4g7ik5/pemufowif.pdf
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/2224881452.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=watch+the+eric+andre+show+season+5+online+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da32.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA32 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f249.bin
1817c9e784f54bd156fc735d403a15e33e6d90de0dc34c4f8d119d052a3ef4ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF249 10788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b2e.bin
d229dfe7e707e4612c2cd59055e819e3718187e9ab52395daac13681036ff2bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B2E 17300 bytes