Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b335c21ea5e23a2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 49c44fc26fd79925ff9493def3d03871 SHA-1: e5a355630ca8c314e68168698bb8d305763efbfa SHA-256: b335c21ea5e23a2bbde5501bbbc491ec378bda0a8c1fd839b8c9fa5d5cb5804c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript points to its use in executing malicious actions within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cdjuchuan.com/upload/files/48731231204.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/vozirifikutefononuvugunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permagnet.com/upload_files/file/210917104722273483t42p16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/70703079356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614207cbb2ec9---20597184212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35491549255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanvienphianam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/6128376117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aczv.fr/userfiles/file/3045568490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrator4you.cz/UserFiles/File/pakenilarorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-baoloc.com/luutru/files/53000155779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxoxemexiwojitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ef203fb3fb7edafc56ea24aa449f5a/77539800247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa53c7ba1b1af3bce47248e1fb5e4e12/69733753746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_19CBC390640B4BDD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gysanya.com/upload/file/210911195144883464ugoclu1dpw9g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/6482_20210909223324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/kefamivudegare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/8916606435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molecult.metallo-tests.ch/sites/web/upload/files/51694382185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/55121729133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/vopenetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-de-haute-provence.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavemitupevelebulosobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11489692729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/19500081352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/5176935700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+mi+vida+en+nueva+york+para+androidPDF 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_off0000e10b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10B 11084 bytes
SHA-256: a4313f9f49fab539755f639f16128eeea4075223c98a5af7e8d8f98eb9df570d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABD 20936 bytes
SHA-256: e656edc37b5776863cac02dabdad48bae71ebf56162bd3fa9617fd81f832313d
font_02_sfnt_off000131cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1