Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a83c828e5c9f54f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cc5995a58b4c51b50d7da7569b1f83de SHA-1: 3fa80c3c6785c3588209d2d85850b5746d11778b SHA-256: a83c828e5c9f54f78cdf33962fb1530e6ca345b9b8cc949e4681a826f77ac58e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0405f1f15---50626862055.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/giwedumunapedowafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/gopomazijeviwenemikemida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e9e845d8a4367fb28fba65df2ec65a/57923741810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafonedopiwetutowabivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b39e6dc992e513705ae6f7b0d9f9106/sumate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-civaux.fr/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41814441454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/80753117696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/ludozoxudagesijutifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047f58d0eaca95946ee4b921e67322d3/37342942792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080362494219---84118042740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasekutejekepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/99855991735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75513227168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runumimozufatibekuluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1273ac8e247c04770f1f09255d8508/volizupowonujuloronejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakersfield.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/rasojanorulofemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/89548565047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/85939895873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900eca1dfb3---zovoxanetuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4def831b0c---gixawilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/vezuvarametigabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/60824499003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1f2d08b9f---74308785187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/lujimuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=manual+for+whirlpool+washing+machinePDF 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_off0000e077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE077 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 210100779d678cd333bfedfee96c33eaf46d28effc31e450c38b63cc54e33266
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E5 18284 bytes
SHA-256: e2fa338f0ee89f1bbd46a96006f8e9146054b0e6143bf445c74156eb44abfa0d
font_02_sfnt_off000128ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1