Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7caac9cb63ea7866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 90b214fdaff29b6f75e1360f09093dd8 SHA-1: b98f37fa651b6aa749a12d8c0c485d30d38ef978 SHA-256: 7caac9cb63ea7866e229da32311355944d151b143cd6d6b6f88e0302502b5423
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF viewers or redirecting users. Several heuristics indicate the PDF hosts a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malicious content distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c6f21b35d---tatudujas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/60396156752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/gaxaridezonosotajozotarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensormaticltd.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togozuwiwapeboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85397730625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/58034888912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/65808866306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/renelisuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/bizixudovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f9b62d0b62a32b9ad8f168b143e172/93514022968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///45950302848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/davefenipebojawusiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restauraceeverest.cz/userfiles/file/neseselajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/kazajafojudira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coverline.ro/userfiles/file/surebazuxezovilenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132635d7029c---7400299625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/68278760092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///85176957462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10-org.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63610069244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f3f5d162c---tetajizepajutadejoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/294330a17156723499844a6464daf925/jugifulukizuvofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/36469467358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/46365158789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613669d27a298---zaxakajowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+meaning+of+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_off0000eb6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6C 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 6d7aed952d73a9cf7490c51b9b64be2e27ebb5ebc984799799748aa75e88ce90
font_01_sfnt_off0001034e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B60 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 0f44c27c2f26c133ac52c90e795df23e8b91f24aef78f25f8b7cf2b0ac67f767