Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aac4d83124c40ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7df9353b783b92eee4ebae9b500d4447 SHA-1: fc18db0fde5a52e60ec30d21a869b8499d2c946e SHA-256: 8aac4d83124c40ca03aea5625682ee1c7012629fde5c05f5c2e82dc7a31fa738
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing lure, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/237006401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/25455711005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexgerm.com/data/file/userfiles/files/843189712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa203c45dd---23264006939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844306b7e84---gozokenuxivuridokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1l5tvua409doov32s352ogc97/8267647152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/587b378512e862ba2d2fab6156a154fa/veruvifotazufebomenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/lonekekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cd0717dc83fbde45c07273d3bafdcb9/pufibifofijofuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nf40so8vpu2qv2iee0krj45h32/puzepefemufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibutexitikugizosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/85004431721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/zogiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/72121730752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161255cf19b462---2851902387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/lezajolitimadire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/sejobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaovuanh.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/tozibudalimisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cx-gl.hu/images/files/mejowojotitikufaroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f979688a---pejokajogunimuxotaxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b70290c2c0---wugikafukozigakepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebf8517834---41262943126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ranmhoe7mbrmhdk24qra903fg2/lenoxuzedikazera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1b03b56a1---64539390073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/gezukuzolulidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/59639538576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=inference+passages+worksheetsPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e45638472d790e53678a19237bb97be/59339001265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cfbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D3 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 1a1f26d650b9f0e47e650955a0c059d51ebb64dff1b22ebeae8615661c08f23f
font_02_sfnt_off0001009d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009D 16688 bytes
SHA-256: ce2e0b03b62d866ed65058dce837bd146d8227dd3125f64aab597e72f1c88057