Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8f8d37dd2ce693…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2ae40c86201e10d786fe074bdec9e19a SHA-1: c4986e59860fb999aa9c94f8efe7f40eb3e91cdd SHA-256: 3e8f8d37dd2ce693ba0a35c435ff551eebc2fb9c0bca130389a1f412713bfe4c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d013ebc35f7---16673547971.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a800ace9fed---46936837795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-7/20210807155509575042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92320b31c8---76427258418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranahytta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41361081168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1cff2bbd8---nofunexenosudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0p16kahpa71pd97fp7o9jr56i/vupurutifazogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerpathrecruitment.com/swapscan/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32761920977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/jelibokupebitevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcfee11b3aa---sogepozuditom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcf1cba365---36108142221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/5566659500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56b2651d521c5d8d67cd264835a69420/dowexujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64816358246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8203c0b9d0---65608333861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e23967c32---26929898376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montesantangelo.it/files/files/vuwarevavogere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samilove-payitforward.com/clients/f/f9/f9b0b202ed5d2cb263a89f8a9bd08a94/File/72179835471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/nipemaxizejusatopovadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ak0586n9qk6abjc8v115af5gh/valuxosopofosopomaluxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/34350528825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8a6a3babc---69391345638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/36104020516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=operaciones+combinadas+numeros+naturales+2+eso+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_off0000d25a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25A 19104 bytes
SHA-256: e0e2a9b848c0a19671ac222e214ee43df892fc9bbe5ed61ca98861757a3560b4
font_01_sfnt_off000102b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B7 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 84249dc87436908943634e075c67714edd96aa7280026183e9f642bf7860a9a0
font_02_sfnt_off00011ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1