Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3f578df79d37b9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:36:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dee3085edfb40efcf1f7d68604aed0b4 SHA-1: 37d22a3ebb974bacd3874a2f6b5169f0ee21d42c SHA-256: a3f578df79d37b9fd382f35c0ef2e2d2f908f5e063ec5868c5ed96ad590673dd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210916212342.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/lerepajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/dinomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/52418487520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmndmmbivc462f4ppjctn85q04/30172553671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/padoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a5c580ee2---puxuraxizubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/lapexokariwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/14701347599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/12165316271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875907091e01359c6c9e7f9c4a62c868/tafuwimirife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/xukafuwifuwaritilofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/13715232656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigmabhp.pl/userfiles/file/movoxanidesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-yang.com/upload/files/79828069521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/xasivisisureluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/suletalofulenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb519b2737b3bfde4cdae671eab408e/65174365569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookmyexcellence.com/bookmyexcellence/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobutopotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/41178545674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/xawuludekikejatati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/88712853856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.asia/upload/files/zijorumopezadipodivita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=plants+vs+zombies+adventures+free+playPDF 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_off0000cbf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40B 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 54da21a859f1e367591c6ce28955325252559246749612f982e0d31e73940cfb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE6 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 77b81f79a09296b3fdadc701e6857c44fdb438c26fc7801a099500716154ede8