Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3307ff3cf4ceeadf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-18 05:33:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 07a65d25cfd23de4239865479d601478 SHA-1: adca901983fb0de98ea0209fc85be768454463a0 SHA-256: 3307ff3cf4ceeadfd3a19dedf75f2ba778f2dcde798d78ae0e1c97a695d282e3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by ML classifiers. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests potential for malicious code execution, while the link farm indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ba757fc48f330c81dc9edeb2bfc1aeb/beluvodarejajub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/kijasuginovixaxofubonuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab82cfe7bd0---jezamegunojelobunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/nurorumesenewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobrofab.com/clients/d/da/da7cd3953015cd63472398095fc1fcdd/File/98300363833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fc89490ba---10782847231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/kopapotezagobanitilama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9dd070fa06---raxitazabunoputoneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/xiperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/luros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/18569722126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806ad4adbd4---kigajajizonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a414b076ade---76143885863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/25659732679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/55497625608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eschool365.in/js/admin/uploadfiles/file/kovavofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccdbe5dcee2af74e48c332cff3ef05dc/kodikinituzezetonedumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac14d6d955---60317306990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/898581341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38070af8a8d575da88c88b498921b342/12558897754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b20e2217b---mesodevapavowigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778a6b70e0d---88957595368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f1c38fa5e---ruxorokexipovikinezalezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=2006+dodge+charger+rt+service+manualPDF 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_off0000da18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA18 11296 bytes
SHA-256: ab767211761709133cdfc7df3c44cb31f0b13f9c778035ec47a41e209756b89a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF451 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C63 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 858a97385ec1daf32884096876106e014b86b8f28ce304d94de79bd0971bded3