Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ac95554ef6bb194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-27 15:31:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9f2260d7da9e700bcaf2d02c7e57843c SHA-1: 918d8e06974a74f52339c3bd441279ba8025c280 SHA-256: 8ac95554ef6bb194cb1bbc9642183bd83e20d6f978c7a8b1bfa70a3ad5b61da4
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 compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, likely to redirect users to malicious websites for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/lagixitasop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/guvesefoximekelolamuzigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a8736eac548e2f067468d7e559bcb1/legagulubite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/zigirodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zabazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af7bb0256458e3fd321f25a82893a30/68521354815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21fd71b972---futetugewafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9300422a433a0f2aee1ca9aecf9b2d/71745634916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/46367991934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/71006505858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-styleauto.com/js/upload/files/34867562326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zionhillfirstbaptistchurch.com/clients/73368/File/48399945606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8ba6471a2---befavanesuxiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaaded88b1---75983333542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derikixodotenedazufiliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8af9a676f---buduperarexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7121c4ebe3---nozubaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/lotiwokiwatozozawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb0829b7ef28ed9c98e7a45565c7b5f/74260814034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/96267605543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/tofoxaluwupeditagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe9deed35a---589940204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c94933b1651857ca927b2707fd3c28e2/7307678264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/losupujovadaxojumipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinkrali.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lolunivudaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cartilage+in+bodyPDF 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_off0000d824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD824 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 4e27822b9bc72f23ebc6c25ea1a5c638ae42ece12c05b4f8b22fe355b6ac0ffc
font_01_sfnt_off000101ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AE 10540 bytes
SHA-256: e527b717035a074b2e3df8578e2a730212cd61b7510939c17894dd9170822899
font_02_sfnt_off0001199c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1