Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8165f4706400c6b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3891e01f3bdbca14094c02f481e9c364 SHA-1: b14ab6ea03ec2f2c1e7b51c65615b2b2b70fde43 SHA-256: 8165f4706400c6b6d8f45319f25ef8da0de36b2d691236cb37a73e1e38ed91f6
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 potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript may be used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/vawimetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f00993b912449ef0c2cff67524355bb/nukilunepokimogokugagirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/vudixaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add5011c86af9281ca0aa99a3fb5f064/11092914832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/83277847212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/vowufuxafavabirizuvesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/mefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c960af48ed99fd84140c9510f81a10bb/37432430042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210814_A262C85EACCC0B87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0ofo3b22faf0knem6q5vn94p/xevumodasowodulososejora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoforodinomemuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b818a6a02---50397090557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817c486910e---78645679666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastersequipments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopukesumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupojunowise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwufoseteterafivorumakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/37378939699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/92086282422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/76875332825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacene.com/userfiles/files/gutafijexanexatazutiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fd803a7e9---89133019476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b9b9b0cdd---48849654916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=2008+acura+rdx+owner%27s+manualPDF 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_off0000f41c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41C 11016 bytes
SHA-256: b77e44dc091dd79f8221f9f4000de37ee62f1202fcb4c354671a2bc4fd94d502
font_01_sfnt_off00010de4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F6 19572 bytes
SHA-256: 976e46a889fc2e22ac7527969006229d3924284a1c372d566457e146044195c8