Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fea4975ef891976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.9 KB Created: 2021-10-10 20:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3fa2c2811e3375429f9b0a12bd56f54b SHA-1: e864716eb1eebe95f351a3ad870bb6efa8b28f61 SHA-256: 3fea4975ef891976302ec970c3de8256c6cbc546bbe09032ab9bc8d7b02d2ff8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links. Many of these links point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or spam campaign. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to further obfuscate the malicious intent or to facilitate the redirection to these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ideology+and+power PDF link annotation
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/90682393817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21768879909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://training-access.com/upload/file/67505799817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haokunchem.cn/upload/files/wirozaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c5f6f08477---lunorogopixivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3acd588b644ae140d6fec00c5155b938/78700886943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152a6a998fd7---gijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/wagekuboterixowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3i6cut7pid2dddieq1kc443khr/gasitozofigavojipivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truck-transport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/95597953677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasimizutetejegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9ja-bet.com/userfiles/file/gudilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ueros.fr/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punaxevajaziworudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/xegelufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/5335986349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/23239699619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/nunabegutami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/70822332470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cbaf5bc682d939c8e0efccaf70d2ca9/bokofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/84742499035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/zowumabutumiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/5395594653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mentormedya.com/files/26807802262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/xukokomatotef.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_off000140ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140AD 20856 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd58c97d2d8ceeacb5d4cad1a75c815cde3836698f543ff7057d3997c0717da
font_01_sfnt_off000176ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18EC4 10360 bytes
SHA-256: b91c06ef0b0fa986365bfd5220fc33a2799dc9e119bbed5912414f52e23493f1