Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3909f9836e2b1648…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:13:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 68d0e94b8ff7f1aea3029e1fac94f883 SHA-1: 12b10fb3c4e8d87df2d1695d77d1f0d7f5eed04e SHA-256: 3909f9836e2b1648ed8a8e60020ff146f3205568fcac86085871c9273ad6486e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. One link directly uses an IP address, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/71461483706.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109100602574395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c746135929---vutuwajilerajosepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nassagroup.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29433335505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/burilujilujojuxadulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/xibalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents/files/lasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/84110884828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210904142626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b129a38db---jevadidolotedirexovomevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganteltechnology.com/system/userfiles/file/dakifakojabulepaxemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/77431582405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrfirework.com/images/file/8384771527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radioevangilereal.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/verijefazebejodenulita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sreekanakananda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23045705599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316ac904141---98830622363.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_92508320D54FEF3B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopits-directo.migrupoq.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52305935472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/31941541389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/kejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/mizasaxafawoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a9660565e---gavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/melepamenudaxuropaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/99527950137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/jijexezajatosufure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=gallery+vault+app+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000def5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF5 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 520e642fce2954d68fdd3fd3d6dc7a891593a48bf58ce6cf85ddc784a1a89695
font_02_sfnt_off0000f785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF785 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 68b5a05c606b956fa6668a9abb9f0b360411fb6b7e8a01c0a92283d5f83f6f54