Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea3960d3794ad263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e8b39b4c0d5fee3284b56f9231fb3262 SHA-1: ba4917730d8da9b1021702a1335772584bb3bf52 SHA-256: ea3960d3794ad263e307b38010751c42f7f7e35a67b7f3747928096a82b384c6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as a link farm. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing content, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03jls498ipr7t44vro0hko6dv1/norejekojisut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd2bb04b52---68902573106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixazudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c16383b47dad019e23ae1ad35396f9c0/89458345163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/tufibururajerele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021561920393776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kappp.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufimevutawimobiloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f96758db4f40f52967d88ead2a639d98/sakepilaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/gepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipkeo.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80101025412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncltandatbar.com/home/ncltandat/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83137562239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iut7a630nq2p89tma4a1biel31/zosanadebuxamodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c36d2702e---6851058625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ln7t72fo2tkac71rpq8rboe1tp/31050708344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zahradysnapady.cz/soubory/files/bigevinizupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e63064e96da---9263055525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05f5d6e857---91620418703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da6950e97c---sigaritesajuzufibotutaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210626041723_434221697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lucga69kp6hfcjpostn5huq5u2/minobifowewarimenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dd7dfa652b---vivikepamumosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bfff21bba---xeradoputazevipobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sri+guru+granth+sahib+ji+in+urdu+pdfPDF 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_off0000c287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC287 10924 bytes
SHA-256: f0d6f09a26a1e5e21a9a7e0740252a5e2eb841e755464efbeafc32730a139a0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000db37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB37 17332 bytes
SHA-256: ac5d071accfdaadaaf2e390c8db3d51cf41f72caaea420111561c5c8469eec23
font_02_sfnt_off0001084b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1