Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eaaaa8e896d3e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 13:14:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4cf0232dd6575f39f3b9d5a52592588a SHA-1: 9850931e5d7b30f153bda12fcbc68194398fa2fc SHA-256: 2eaaaa8e896d3e8c37c9af0daa6e554eca6fcd3db32662217d9373b5992e72a6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely to download further payloads or redirect the user to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://htijsr.com/userfiles/file/pobodesasavuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/16038290538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskypohar.cz/upload/file/89321239102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genogizuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57419439984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdf909f859---13636833662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/remababixajefadapobavabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/18323133145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/pakuseselog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614842cac100e---xepunobaruwexusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614704a35f410---53241904363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907222405870575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/papukuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/zadakatumunixajefawigafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c30c792efa09b82aebb719ea35bd6c6/6182505039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hefei.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93155161985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89839177576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43419828560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/66100117394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/8338934723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341467edf1f---22783189260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/nijalolodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espicycooking.com/files/file///neworomoboruwibisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hacking+apps+androratPDF 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_off0000e5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A2 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 85cc3166fd29a471e6ba8254b85e68823ad43036dbc805bd75e58c786e227395
font_01_sfnt_off00011431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11431 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 59ea627eb5a60858c0a2eb3d005b79462386010fe4a17ec37a3408c880b98b69
font_02_sfnt_off00012c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1