Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 980b263116f3540b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 23:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e3da8f0e40c2da207ded17b1abcda3b9 SHA-1: bfe0f134ae6f00b11acca4e6b77343ccdde2ea6c SHA-256: 980b263116f3540bb10b444f2bc559dd20ae4c30c20f5c980ea282552a664bc4
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 links. The heuristics indicate that these links form a link farm, with some pointing to compromised CMS uploads and others on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shanwan+ps3+controller+android PDF link annotation
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/50582672730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/45132259938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/vizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7025412393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/vajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/lufebafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/9074042024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intersonik.eu/upload/files/83788881004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d48c5a7b2---zeteganosusofaralajuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/mepugakevogajapusumowopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/75976881413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/14889671903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.info/upload/files/vavijekusovojudipora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/rasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ef1b206dc3d74b234613af1edff8958/betalobibafotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt2i7nh1i6gji0iblf3fl8jbc9/6897546454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34879145844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/25828797550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huuphongplastic.vn/uploads/images/files/20816176793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa5f349b8a6b383ffca4f4b02550241/74683386012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1m3pt6l387ivm3evq7m0ns72d/22717725320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/75272170293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents/files/18379295969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4f2f7c7a7---80984910238.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_off0000b420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB420 16380 bytes
SHA-256: adb7654132fd5d4639e9b88dbde4b85c869e46bcc4e2b5a0d6bca528170301cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFC 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 99e66580aeb72cdde4d84c5aa4d4f0e8f3ee0925fba62ff068672d5411100e0d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1