Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2d8abbd9b8f32ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b95a76a19390effd8cab9314e672cf0e SHA-1: b5ae49e9db135e1c0c9bb9a2e46606702320e788 SHA-256: a2d8abbd9b8f32ef8b5cc1b22bc67da6e340ff23bdd18cdf120d3cd1de9e282d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious payloads. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to obscure the true destination, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fa119a7e57---fotekaguwaripezekomixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15913954352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f14ab0e418---bezekudapifoxulani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/64380635327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/tumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1f50a4123---1132106016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6a153c2b1---jigigifawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3134094c27---sebuxopav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9ac2685c4---rasukelojoxonomekovarixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishkan.net/UserFiles/File/88239286816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57646304d16ed0bc513d720504849e94/83110141011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c25a64fff---rubibotikabofujefewopoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811df590d25e47a92c7385c949975c5d/figumanekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saptpadi.com/files/file/majavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkno80uuf372o85m1tcin24d65/wabonakaturelubububivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idolyokocho.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37730745794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3c577fa36---15142498260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084679532c32---nomito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/87658488232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51e9ce7e9---gokejuxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/82341274345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenawikuwigelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/67815629626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8898e6697---46739559813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/bivewidavipejigubesobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2d5b3d5776dff31c02ee1599bc27b4/67093866732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161156cfbf3e03---xibagutefowamakovakajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/juzibijokiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=nyc+doe+field+trip+permission+slip+pdf+spanishPDF 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_off0000f18d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001099f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099F 18468 bytes
SHA-256: 882749d4829e983f30d71c1064ed7a204f2ffc9181f5d34a7712692873f6abbd
font_02_sfnt_off000139cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139CD 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 0a9c48d83b5275aff51523f7da83f887ad590761e5a08cc839cebdb9ceb1c8ea