Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8847a110ebac96c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-26 06:18:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 74b1fdd4a71dfff20e9a8434ed4a38a7 SHA-1: 5a1c9e60a54b97f9b42b2ee1f947bd02af69811f SHA-256: a8847a110ebac96c83603d0957691957600e5335f8426c1d9869d5ae8dd9d20d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to execute further malicious actions or redirect the user.

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 https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b859ee003fe4bbae75da5bce61596839/37527173700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/fotepoposugunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/42787991859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c28b7c013---fajawejudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o1b30bo3k1n73b5g6a02q287j/suruxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/rufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e4a35e48fb9e19fe7f63575c8f5685c/napuxarowiroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegotofegisamotonalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2428aa0b0---36963198738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b95bc5616---37803761444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/52238044076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k456lkvrii2nknp337m74p7jm7/2331255734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/56743283980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/sexubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservativista.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45836916333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/mitozutujilixapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6575cf2be0d3b280e54878031ae6d9a8/gikogetigeniromized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/folowozusuxinawigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3g037tfstgtjhps3fhnr3dmsq0/27835332894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/lunawolixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210730_4EAC89781F735E44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75953149599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24850074415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/79606953499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=reconstruction+after+the+civil+warPDF 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_off0000de55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE55 10732 bytes
SHA-256: f0571fba0ef5872c45a5ed71e2f5a7cfc4927abb70d1a3dc1eabd77d79ce3087
font_01_sfnt_off0000f701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF701 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 56bae07603d0294c74890e7f74bebcc5c8a1589c95bbce5310f10a6681ef3f18
font_02_sfnt_off00012485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12485 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1