Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e35eb18d5186b2b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:50:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6b396f7a021e4589cff1513d390ba3f6 SHA-1: ffb23c17316be02754e3b76f05f0e122d96ca0ba SHA-256: e35eb18d5186b2b7ba3e48cc0f382f6e3e5120b34a98abc2dd72142c0899631e
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable domains. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98463211409.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/xufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobamesezuzupedebevuzipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/sobanigemoladufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd313c79b0---gumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/64833821826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/54926916446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/dikatebejamikezumanezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16561171956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/zozitipudatawoduwexedogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/rixomabaponezevezuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwokekasejulamurosevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gobines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/sevezuzaxaruzaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/93153663641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142026c8875d---liwugebuvojatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/rulufesitexivafarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fca994b07---dafere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odontologosmalca.com/images/userfiles/file/naserosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/pawidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/kifirofumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90860628744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315628221c8---64565787404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/61880305051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ben+10+iso+ppssppPDF 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_off0000ef12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF12 18908 bytes
SHA-256: 311f0d9f16d1484d63832b84bcd28087d7413b1e08e648c431af45394228732b
font_01_sfnt_off0001206b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13882 10064 bytes
SHA-256: badfc0a025d885ebdea96219e82ca564d2bad7ffb79408b8c8be72ac127b2486