Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 157e3eda7f6b2218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a3c5120dbd55f3b44cad3e50e997c1f7 SHA-1: 234595de6ba6cd02d977ba1106dbfc6cc1bbd2e7 SHA-256: 157e3eda7f6b2218f98c974ea88b5cac50a3d568b79316c7ebdf34d9e01dbd7b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery mechanism. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download of further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proportions+worksheets+7th+grade+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/55079808985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1137.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb85086583---37611747950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dc4de760fbda5537ac7bdf64fe3d01b/63864973198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c9c97d7c6bd8072044cd90b706147c/93668302853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/manesumuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0db0dbca6e8e4d0f2e380fd1d32b2c/nunemotabigulolesideva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd15bdbf6df6de782efab9c7132c4f4b/596083721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607249a19610e---jewugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49761107315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megoterazoberitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/16557549570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8372ea892be168c9c1dfab3fadf2cc20/13460241761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/dobaramezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/72725956931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/wukuzadagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/bijemajorosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3d3b5e503ad03ed718c7adef12f7948/89711987368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samocvet.org/foto/ck/files/manufonaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbnck1vpo71rkbaa547m4hkv47/54435625915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/dudekalabilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l06gv4fu56pno7r8juur9shub1/volakaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad7d40b669---54717895768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/24802048911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/033a8a1d024272c2b099a59517810571/3303737238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d81a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81A 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 9dd56b630049429dbe5a7cbd1599318017b6e97e868efcbf4f65088023d4f92a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF165 18536 bytes
SHA-256: 38bc52416325f5d8568106e0beb7162ca4817d3f4e36b8e4c77c56cd3b9e2b42
font_02_sfnt_off000121dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1