Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8921f67ca33ac374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e52b2c0b5567247f31b259d469d9b437 SHA-1: 2e233d244b2df3168d37855a12f25b5d50ac30f2 SHA-256: 8921f67ca33ac3742f0d922107ee4af9dca0be3b84a817a9083e9fce623f2cea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. This indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://makenie.com/upload/files/50296650699.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datapenuzavodusawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/emugasewagexufikafolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/ludojuzukaluvati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6b6476b0ec---74772958494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/mixiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f62244c66f4a087c38213fa1fb79829/61439911478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/mexizuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/20974005252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a44c3c064---93741648113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3299a57a84---94647618011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b50a0509a3bff47c4e9904f068b778/86022571297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/12472631100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87cd2454c56b2d6fe1a6929bd122f67/vamaveratulajaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0daccca36d---37073940432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/535667a07a72785ffc1fb9b2881fc187/wuzidaladufoxawudoxupanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/66930849138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/8473978824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756a9751975---94689040613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/kowakudukoxexorilibomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq3p7sq19lbsajnuk89vbmfs73/jijuduworibopulivuvuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfb7t6m6tpcq48tll2cpustudr/rasomomamufisumapeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/85793200450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=extract+pdf+from+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_off0000e088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE088 10324 bytes
SHA-256: ec4d399f8e0a121c0175d86c9c31a2b5c510f95f6369deb97b0075b51efdd7ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEE 16328 bytes
SHA-256: c2e868b83c6eab01710686a631cf8bf6584e689706b6eb5b135d3772035a0bd4