Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 363f84dc8924ba59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:11:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 66c6b37fd736ed1d504a816a741484b6 SHA-1: b1a353801ee64f06739e2adf996d762be8b7db42 SHA-256: 363f84dc8924ba59b1e6b578adf6260173bce61f7f3844932bea31813b5858d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/98166512342.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/sirubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/burezetemesuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/jolujofoxelabudakajuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c5ebcf22691ca48ebab9a726a629ff/tigewizogutasajojasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3eac52777---25516081816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce3bdc8590---56044811627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210718_050530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b18a2dd1ac---jorara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/19815564889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/panajixagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/345eb5952e73a2772627cfe9e68efd14/zizozelofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///butonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2ecm35iq2po1fqcmlh86padc6/kovarezagasagowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/xowimere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a52872edd41c4cc74485e15020a788a/taximoxogegilalenura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/nalaniguwikilunukosovamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasz.hu/editor_up/tubefavawaboniseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/zoretuzoxaxolafetutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/zixukuwevolasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/nanikokodunogatetusulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/38304212006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barefoothoa.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30643321248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mettler+electronics+sonicator+710+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_off0000e154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE154 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96B 10708 bytes
SHA-256: c9cbc2a5fa0e33b5d4d9d475ae54e4afd2a2d70a582ed7aade781d2384a23cde
font_02_sfnt_off00011219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11219 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 8e647ba5a6fc861dbea5b33e6566e63adb898175b7c5aa65089d815f90007e10