Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8efaec21cca88c57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:08:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ad59eaed7c79e5fcbe39d4783d3b80d3 SHA-1: 18df2b4c782687c8c537c27cf1b62265eac9e7a1 SHA-256: 8efaec21cca88c57c2346ef7a30d3f26c365f8bc316cc475819e905a7c42b403
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates potential for further exploitation or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bare+acts+pakistan PDF link annotation
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780cf8465b97e32a4ae8058d008cd83e/zokaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/23676700546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/72183600125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/xobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607550c46f669---42035680263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/gadufutitebijiletatope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021631251443404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/verazurivimovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/zujupasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58438415708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99098387048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2ef26796c6ba6252d040d0393c340b/wiwatapogidusubugetovepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210712_EF2FC49D39075BF8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/tevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g80gm7j5td06m248ubn26lcgpa/domilumametizogawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ameshamagazine.com/js/upload/files/zugitiguvitategoloniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84762831667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef628bc201275abcbe6ddab13ee6cf6/34796135894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91322a97f---27845499304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/sozawugotozupapulafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/51124522433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tedesawurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ecdd75198c---toxufovonaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/60992436211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cf285106e9c450d84143ee3cc0a9c6/93969480915.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_off0000dcf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF8 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 067fb13280f5cd644884efd6d55895e1bc474ff2c81e4494c9eb6ecca57fa2f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF479 17908 bytes
SHA-256: ebd089f51bec35a3f2d5921c65d3c1c56212e24774d6c4c661488c9a07175255
font_02_sfnt_off0001233b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1