Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d81f2b0b9717045…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0e723f3902a4b04985027469a9c81f64 SHA-1: a10c3992612f3ca196e780cfbcacc6d0600e7a36 SHA-256: 8d81f2b0b971704570729baab3ae8d455db2c1acee0515c3f02b511f638b2501
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 compromised WordPress sites. These links appear to form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0640d3c15e---vizikafifozofitafesal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jainfarms.com/uploads/90970660400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiyastyle.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexereri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3575989e95b7ea4562ee78ecc3c96351/57837568408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c978f3a35---tedezona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5nms9jg283kj8hai9uoj68cp5/fenulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7196dae04---niperonubulutiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be28975b533f131d3bf99b847a7de968/71164919822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2662d51b6ce003d4daff620d24f53e47/ruzojuvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pitosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cfaeede3b---47443823250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/kapitufaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/tener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ee8db3d6f---kozokitewetafapunavamisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080297eb6f9a---87651227142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/retativol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd582a7a57---18165892661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/85823692537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e1c53a3d534e7dbf2b378a7f251a1b/62683851832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/871053a42985cbf8c29193a10d4402ae/34025596906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/85322588904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/49410536716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s408j5kvtfg2k7249me4ejfva/87377503798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00na04gd1kfu0dscddkcmc9egg/gubufibezodineriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=wallpaper+magazine+pdf+free+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_off0000df90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF90 16908 bytes
SHA-256: c1ebbc19cea6c27ae765526dc65c52f429d890f03f50ec815128a99d692c76b1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12363 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 83b5d9fc4efd63adaf312863f69ec1afb8b98759e5a8393280d3d5fe37d8a999