Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e997ea65ba7c015e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c13797fe36a5eb6cf302714b74185f43 SHA-1: 3a83d469f917d1d0d0fc5f978bfe1da5daf58016 SHA-256: e997ea65ba7c015eaa6ac6b2280a135f7feb501b76e826428a86683dc90ff097
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/41100151894.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaizousha.com/js/upload/files/texoxopijepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/54134892807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/13345567365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/49808613923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/8395893503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ad6950927---95415580728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/89680683951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/87472334608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/37857119810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff9e66d12a35acac5606dc180bae334/22088408777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/vadozetisesapufifiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellerisland.com/files/71877197646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/81365412649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/53982029355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/62266886556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449975c5f41---96648707046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/31046736283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/ninivodaxesidubakemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/fewukonununowuximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/temifitesipozalegapolate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/96325704429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=book+of+shadows+charmed+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC332 18556 bytes
SHA-256: b305d64c53a728c0762f8ace3ab71de01d2eae8372290f2a49fb86dc6c506767
font_01_sfnt_off0000f404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF404 10928 bytes
SHA-256: c437e6fdb335e9052e44295ca9c9c46f7de79e835bbe7e1df13f66a135d8a928
font_02_sfnt_off00010d45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1