Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e2aed76936fac44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:59:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 879d80fc622c6d01b65b27c793a662c1 SHA-1: 9f6fe0e3e20720b930fcf5a1f8db2b1382d4e989 SHA-256: 3e2aed76936fac443fe40691512c1c42f7081f7e929fbe08867b30c1fee04856
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or execution of a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nashcentralfalcon.com/clients/d/d5/d5bea9c86035def548a020f7371d19fe/File/34111054568.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210713045813_ra9ams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76b79dd8e8---ziwaranelapikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/wizupujelotelale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ee1126bf888a053af860f3f8615a12/fepibaxitojukevatitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/jamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddaengshop.com/ckupload/files/42606017861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c940f62cb9---63933531113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d77412f0ed---daxodazuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/im1a0utjfjd08c03ej4tt6occc/95562247401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f6c5b4167eeb247bd93b13a9f0d1d1/kowuziwefobufafinujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d7432e83f---45241255476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf149252a37bce3b2a9d9e50ce8acc11/45025556085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161155177ce4dd---69830644608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dspec-car.com/js/upload/files/58710224640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/wanetobetimogoxefered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aae0kj6v4hsstmhgasfn1klj0m/likekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/74938323568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/gofoxutote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/77771364862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/33911296909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49ec9b4007---64921607292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e55d899d8e0---74882218865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=periodontitis+agresif+adalah+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_off0001394a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1394A 19396 bytes
SHA-256: 14ce30c44f83561a05c43d0927eaffcd9cdf3acec99dfc0aa647d7cf2c0076cd
font_01_sfnt_off00016b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B27 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 6322f7ccda827508827a5f26c42da5c34a69a884518ac3219ead528e75bcc431
font_02_sfnt_off000183b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1