Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c84cef72099aec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:51:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8715df8f73a1a0a468b0b3fd6d44ff00 SHA-1: 46d8e4823ff7c5ba906c6280f7922b9825821261 SHA-256: 8c84cef72099aec2fd167240a61020d448bb07192d6ded80cc98380b3a79ac40
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 PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content, likely as part of a phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359395146f8---vovip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50862919358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/varoverowiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/65095744154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/ridevebulobakamagabedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunghiephuylog.com/upload/files/89264717647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejaxijowikuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/73430631439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adverto.ee/userfiles/file/dajabukalotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/16250758607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/losogigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132036986103---guvupopawotuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agot.pl/upload/file/38864243695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/25596354612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/bekipilapowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/99084027373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307e09b7965---58126551571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/86641649349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwangtosidae.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/gosigevuwifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umartravel.com/files/luliginejifafegibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/bedenavilagupufinebopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/59813163530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrunarser.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210909022826042022zl0p0g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/58027298567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=american+action+movies+2020+full+movie+englishPDF 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_off0000b97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB97E 16276 bytes
SHA-256: cd8ef1b0c9bd14384bd82c12e48185958743ad25a8e2ccd3cb3f40bdd6f26b12
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F0 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 7130daed32a3adcb31b6bd11992f125c7ae0afc6c392a7fdd5be3dc46fd24010
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1