Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a8e815a7d663920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1b7a85d939ef0121289a9019fa7b9d32 SHA-1: 739cb37423c658b6562cc28ea5917bc5b472dffa SHA-256: 7a8e815a7d6639203c2ba5680c58328da1c344c06e2040a30c0cef21f2e75848
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links. Several heuristics indicate that this PDF is part of a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://anukulagrotech.com/ci/userfiles/files/8624612269.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/titubowamazapulepeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-fuji.jp/js/upload/files/tefipizosimajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/6876541001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfroi9n7s8apa8dhf3b74qoue3/59391778839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72a4324fb0---18356446135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mcq93tjfbkubmo4bhbocl7m2h/vedobaketor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a4087197b---rosadatinijumuxeketikera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56a7426cb3---pizoduwobexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images//files/dibokuluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/10078137582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210830173228_gzn1gn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26uoo33mdu3h81nigfu4me0gmo/lizolutomelaterarisinivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb736d8806---gewawelirewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2b26e8ed1---19175021319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c27cc3568aa1dcc9985b3ff96abb09/81071442000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/56479590012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56aeahdrgs0v21gh4tijlooj84/padikamamisusixojerowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/61825731645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d97d250010d---nogazuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/56147428708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608193b71017e---zaxaviburafagibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/wivumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+can+i+do+with+a+restricted+licensePDF 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_off0000daeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF302 10548 bytes
SHA-256: e34627ba83c7b04355608429e3f707db74432a358b6758d9a6db70607af6f278
font_02_sfnt_off00010b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B13 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 62d08f4124b33179f94729d77cce08fdfd6be819be7a2df8e7c62fccbeed872b