Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a1c90a26155d9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 0cc2aa96d6a61ae358f6020fd4329b03 SHA-1: ca6d1b330205d85b47b81453f0c6360891c1d158 SHA-256: e3a1c90a26155d9c7c9e2d9f0f148a8cd7ae7a93e1d72b8cdac1b8d052401ee9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier confidence of 0.998 further supports a malicious classification. The primary lure appears to be a fake download link for a popular application.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+netflix+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://hbaoge.com/upload/files/35231203176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a3f7d0163a9b75d7eb26a91472ad75/kijubinujazunuwotikifitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98756937239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/31825081693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e43ff1bfb4a7d3e59f2d45806a65a0/bidexenefanub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gumolaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevusumoxukakizebaxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/zoxadutikesuroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36966838259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/selodovuvojogivusokaxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/pexekitipiloxatazowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/55045611732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/91980239902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jofg5t7tc726jpuibmbfnf0hr0/31768344936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/35810013807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45674733894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f26c336a2e---70734585851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46020714045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingzhongjing.com/userfiles/file/20210919173213_2033279995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successstudio.net/userfiles/file/gegevikoveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikamos.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_off0000b8af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AF 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 319e6cc24b65d242117a220e0863ad7e4711db04eb4580a04d5f5c6aa6363952
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BC 16504 bytes
SHA-256: f3c7706b3ad27fc6eaccfa0fce147baebfa16e561b853e157940abb976f39ba3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1