Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3931a50ac3e5cb1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 35aa30cb7b1d500fb16884b8061c144e SHA-1: 2ab0625669b9c056fc747dabf2fa6412ea28a920 SHA-256: 3931a50ac3e5cb1f91a3f64e8f923d41876dd55bee4a74846af3765a42148c4f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploitation process.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwanuvekatuwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099255e905c9---94475816995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83eff3642022bf5203a638e5770ff9a5/29637002295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/94944314736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemingway.bg/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzadujubezozolejunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/91164814159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35c618d7716758280e344e405b27a60/31835048341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16298063371162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7cb4d18ae---97207810577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huron81reunion.com/clients/f/fe/feec28e48c841af8be4ad6373737a022/File/gewulejobasojirizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pbri.in/ACP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92366213498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128f141ba038---93438054639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57624382962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/busad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e9bc8263da8a2b0da9b6b58284508c/zolosadefobigipolosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/1267876659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c346222313a---37766648370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/divuwotadarilolizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffbcb887f0---vobuwijanexerives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16232582524639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b96b8fc124d102c4631767d4501bc7e/vogiketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/gazuvobekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210716233708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=applied+linguistics+and+language+teaching+pdfPDF 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_off0000e5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5EC 10760 bytes
SHA-256: a79d90b0babce3bb36ed7b6c4509586c048706ea77a888dd64cfaa6a079b3247
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE65 17044 bytes
SHA-256: c6282795c71cdbe8b01dc018e79f31f46088c2782175da74c2609e5f247e8922
font_02_sfnt_off00012a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1