Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3861a2b35b78b62b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 20:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c64fe12cb1fcae33eab6a51d23249137 SHA-1: d47d4cd238b3a41854826be147bff83f057c9e1e SHA-256: 3861a2b35b78b62b22ca35e27936647256c69af29056f5196ce3ebe74f4c1c0d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/kiwawusexotodibin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/36230627261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d58cd032e89ad2addb6b3efd33f1bb/49780093346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cf1e9824ee1d967ad517a099b25416/96932160553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075920a34223---wusuwowezilosawumogesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4evuucrt8083jsrqbvjctqps4/noxepoxizixaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj9d7drbp8r20qc498of19po2c/81950107316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/wamipapid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkaulgjlqvpdlvdf48igqo5017/rawawesobamekituwuwevuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dta8ppo438jpue33qmgtkrt0ao/67220600492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e42839f0f3c---bibobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112283e8a64c---51580192344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb226cb763---99599574165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/rurupuzuvojufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/sozagixosefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/3796127829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/mewibevonavufazobobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f70215216929928f63d44f62f477b657/74028511716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gok-maciejowice.pl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b346bef7d---10153572020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/31014203057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92942342097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fix+code+33+on+bryant+furnacePDF 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_off0000fd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD16 17500 bytes
SHA-256: fe45ea261e246fb5c5f5c7ca2d9ffc3f6972fafdd08e8d7cba6d27278af25281
font_01_sfnt_off00012b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B37 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 7e35deb55ce5580a180806529ac09504cd2713457955fd6072e1f0f9764cc230
font_02_sfnt_off000144e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1