Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3694c15174e4338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 08:14:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3986f2c5dfffde08f9978cf121ce7ccc SHA-1: ed1f66e2a0cfe9b4f1936fa0e5846bce175081a6 SHA-256: e3694c15174e43388b8423a3248b3346f88ae210db9eff106062570f79e48984
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tra%C3%A7ado+de+caldeiraria+por+calculo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/30481266732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/ludutunedibitolabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a3b4eeaeb---7446679881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d269193dd46---butenibogakibugulojaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c427ac62f48---35760780913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/22361861231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/45651538867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labmansour.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanuzilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4224f796343746cdd33733cd5bd9405d/bobawunolakido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_3EC29E91A7B51825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/danovezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubecomments.com/ci/userfiles/files/5267903445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769e9b90b19---1962830685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k3km2eficg3ulhjiip7dmclpp/zutave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1stg52p995kvtl36gqrsiokm3/46837288767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161187ffdca95c---11452284956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/23223006122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomujuridon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcity.hu/ufiles/file/4223720647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80462951049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/16485436334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05f92d93ac---sobesefaxinisemegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a247b9445a260c9291609437b847de/bulexumavu.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_off0000e90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90F 19068 bytes
SHA-256: e8f4dc3feda7066f28adf59be468c95380615e90b52d28c40dbae6b36718ae80
font_01_sfnt_off00011869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11869 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13080 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 50e7acb894e0c5fd4119105d1ddd5d75feabf81dceb3a9a1862c550dc39afdc3