Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b8fcf8661e4d8df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 23:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 94d8775cc1b625e1990cc4144c66aa2a SHA-1: 99f5f981f19cba91c95969a8572c09cf0db55946 SHA-256: 3b8fcf8661e4d8dfc25ad3c2698d5cb4df5468e9cb1ca5dd8aa94cbb34a63297
164 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, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic firings indicate this PDF is part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination, likely a phishing or malware download site. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=modele+de+cv+canadien+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/buzukusujidowevebuxilutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c72b57e409---sesivelovejopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/28274800420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/zatizizubusedajajuwepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i29uhu4lu9hok1mdeocr7t0o9o/xonaxebuxijapuxawofuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/jisetepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45868fc1d9c964f70d46c753fd21843/37894397455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/rexexabimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/juruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3dc684974---68643618793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/tolorimakogumevajuromumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukidotejadumuditex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce7bd2717d4---18077098164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e834c5e80440cb5da911fa544f7b9c5/zipivemilabinekefofoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/moxujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/finomozigozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mundori.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12224904884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/45879811912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/20539403715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paraviwuwifajubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/276e21afd7df68ceec87980066864fd4/89385611063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42660160427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/28932448545.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_off0000e512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE512 19316 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef75bca9fb1ec41498bc19ea06e242a3b393524c4f63b8e7bad4d820283ed8b
font_01_sfnt_off00011501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11501 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 727426b04fa926cd6bc8a63828d519c25293f5a25c72d0728218a460ff8e1683
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1