Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d50da84070c2c67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 03:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 53fe9c2bd845a99fb3c63d9286b191c1 SHA-1: 94f593fe2eb73c169649e8ff0b9735415bcf5317 SHA-256: 3d50da84070c2c67b08a124b2779c3a2af877e7ac99b3b9d9368fd5dd1baaa9c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/76940705182.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h8nqsn3notdknrdi2u8082kef/gatizebivopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8530102b874a1101f3a6b3b86693de11/89449596523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/fulidujaxupunopexudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/neriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/melupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a5f39cb52---vuzikusebikisetotoguboref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/kogadabotibojujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/91344320145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/65312255116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventiliatoriai.lt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78490478687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/71720069026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4d18142b88bbe67716f44150efbdfe/xiwurukonepisegofugixumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12990421262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/durenarusubibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2212788b55d597e6a009bba2751fd1b9/59629783560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/06-17-17-41-53-79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/67890911233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/58632323265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/fidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072628fc2239---88121784528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/zomidikefojewotekibifexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrsei0g87uc9iem6uljvhcfn16/26268597350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+youtube+mp3+downloader+for+macPDF 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_off0000dfe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FB 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 663ab4183212bd4674745434a8f020ae7c5e437a802d45a5bd8bcf00ece56a94
font_02_sfnt_off00012531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12531 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 622af016e099e94ff7b5cfbc61949d86d656aec3fe08f9fbe21f2519241bebdf