Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3579ff7240e1bbbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:53:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b446ec92e90818e3fa8ed542e0ef5edc SHA-1: 895f147af62ac75b119e5da92b4cc247f4f0d8b3 SHA-256: 3579ff7240e1bbbc437433e9787caa83149ab4046ac896bb3d6f7a3b10907300
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript and link farm suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malware, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcq+gynaecology+and+obstetric+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/sokefakejenugipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136938dc2e37---67433232579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevorhannant.com/263395589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles/file/32317931226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/38718242080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc1830fbd1---24485098420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/rulabofaxatafizuzaguxivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snkpost.com/fckedit_file/file///20210903_9_26_24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368ef9cff5e---37673511617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/98417089126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/62761147934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kolowosesovivibozojebepud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///94264644615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26836205205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/38462836023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/mekenusoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takramaipai.com/mypicture/file/80153552158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/16066502797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/duwowireleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokkaido-love87.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94926346612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/kuritutogovefejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/61179206891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediacentre.aerlingus.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57638404169.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_off0000baf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD30E 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 1e9695bb09b6a38a90039ee0874a7b56bdead1e3a0e5e214aa41ee0ede2c5c02
font_02_sfnt_off0000eca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA6 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 615ba9f7972da0b8bb3b0dc0e7c9fb87e415bf521402a143fbc38579a2815a24