Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cabe0c1bf41fc11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 16:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4c4f405c1d48bfea057e764977c22526 SHA-1: 75d9c07d577e368f70dee8924b26ce6cdc836b3a SHA-256: 8cabe0c1bf41fc114daede7505f665fa9ac9acff25d635b37bf6696c27e51c36
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, including a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a primary indicator of malicious activity within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://carnow.jp/js/upload/files/80622315627.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c6aca9c4fe---xinuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaticketland.com/userfile/file/waruxomepineliril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/21664466135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/75193399578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161512bd7e34a8---91610790870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/33600609149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/6147db8de7355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/nofilixewevomevubulefepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourguarantees.com/userfiles/file/12357450497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/1688852004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/92208410130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/bexesarunobarilanupani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prmakeup.com/Image/files/likepududo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maffart-guy.com/userfiles/file/53940583354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/fesinefizadeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/89928432286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83252245423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/lolujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/25547602799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/37507454318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produccion.formacion2puntocero.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazakeresadutixisoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da995257a7f319ba28a77d12d580a006/70222291649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozuzelupure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/29746321485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+ppsspp+downloadPDF 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_off0000b402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB402 15044 bytes
SHA-256: 0213a9b2acd524b66097237628c8cffd08587c553703f2fdd930229e17ee8184
font_01_sfnt_off0000d999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD999 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B0 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 2e9d5d75f27ccf63e117b48e89e1debec8d655b989e801b3031f7d0700ed83d5