Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8894181f523ba831…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 095b89c12d15478114b72ee6f1a5e805 SHA-1: a2a23cbd207e617b5f425b745ba7156960d56c4a SHA-256: 8894181f523ba831c729e583d9834e899a3ecd1da606bcbf978e218664360965
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links form a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meav23k9tusvlt34lk8iv64lr6/musapugisutowevuzavot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140186c7cce0---17158735251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/wudilefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370b7478234---19283727612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47833522099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6248518652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/76206960092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://u-spot.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16555964452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvu9mmv1v4icga9nvmiuaj78ul/97818038097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/4113813226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/40568783141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grootformaatspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/37051689952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/86515832661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210908175714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/9868772853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161452ff46bf05---kaxijunifagowalipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca84a4d6a6---wilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/dobigatenajepipozatefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/97458708952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0575zl.com/userfiles/file/37613413863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/23321353862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+dead+or+alive+androidPDF 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_off00011abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABD 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 863dedde528360707fd3981ff5ffb2385286fabbba6e0e028338fa2a826f2e89
font_01_sfnt_off0001324a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1324A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A5C 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 30626f27756223d300e1b64f9f7b1599680ef3a1c8bf75164b895ed3763bf152