Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3be0e592f478347b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e6aa467f72d713724e2fe75167d509db SHA-1: af5571710bb9c410d2946e4836b01b4ebfe79654 SHA-256: 3be0e592f478347b8cfaadff18695445a7c063bbc604fe378b305d2231fa74e1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, identified by the PDF_JS heuristic. This script likely redirects users to external URLs, as indicated by the PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, which point to a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics confirm its malicious nature, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/49063491369.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasuxixedomawokumabaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16766835425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/vuzivitivisajaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/77645370103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/ledezupalafona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-ys.info/js/upload/files/dojoviliweramagifanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longislandinvestmentadvisors.com/nini/userfiles/file/34645718638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/josunuzopirogeraxizopalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4d101cfe2---kugugudevujasomedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/65032996812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/gotobogipogememizetixomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/nugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/29485297841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/boxiwapudomuzibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/70332187045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531mckmsfe63s5dqu4gng902vb/84494701231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903000528970986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/27506162494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/pabatigomupumolumesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/56259193590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87c00d598b84569e6c3e57b62fd4071/21364458667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/98787947663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/soxakoxonitolizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plantessentialoil.com/upload/files/71997024183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=handbook+of+physics+springer+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_off0000df6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6B 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 7be24b5d6b3b9e4c1f908b34e6dd1ac675ef0c5e70b1099f85b0f4ee0f9ceea2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D5 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 3d0a0886da789521b88a373286a6db00b9e45cf705cb056dbb98bf0457766ee1