Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fcac0d4ed829c08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 91e3369d3916a569599c3d8516bfdf9e SHA-1: 7e8692ac5080a0da2820bd90e15ddcd8afd11646 SHA-256: 2fcac0d4ed829c08ac4fd8d374a2f090c59b9ed44f621ffaa95aa8b98c6c1458
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common method for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to execute further malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://chipgene.com/image/files/20210922_083319.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://activesites.atiks.org/files/70794625179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44700818908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c05r8mjs1ehrmg1vs3bajpm00h/30877265770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cthds054uh82tv8oclhhgm0977/jineja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614921160d892---kujirolutulafawadevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/budufenufokufuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvezda-pardubice.cz/files/file/65893126754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.rudy-ra.com/files/sugasodibebidenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/boxusuzofomezagisumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210901061826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxozopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/pogovurolibiwavizaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26738192213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads/files/202109032126301602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jocafoto.com/fotos/file/33040438739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109100046037536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/sifezazofunovovolido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/powiludozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konikanarrowfab.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizogaxeribebuxematel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aa5alfu.kz/file/29738031637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30625933297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2222.netsociality.com/upload/files/rotejikapuxirenode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=watch+24+anil+kapoor+season+1+onlinePDF 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_off0000d808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD808 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd9115d384c88c8da62ecc8c418df0dbcd00bb475698cd7bccd2751ba487476
font_01_sfnt_off0000f108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF108 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 63a1f92b8aa2ef6bf1cc0d433df3d82cd87e5c89570f84ba36b35a5f509d7815
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1