Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e1d0fab3f932c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-28 01:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 53b0e516acebdda40d5927c63c544cc2 SHA-1: ca631bfb9cf14cef576eb7425b9a8ea721d6d142 SHA-256: a8e1d0fab3f932c73cee5879d5ef9af7af045e7307e49f91bfc2d68bb9e7ddad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities or phishing lures through the linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46986988475.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607228d764b76---57394167898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/rirewonuravovoxisaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chachachat.info/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87134502481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db1e3dd7ecb---sutetevagufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/81914932479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c04af20cd1---dozuluxuvotiwafufuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071caeb8f2cb---69937257616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/93899479783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/57639533437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/zedajononusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77273684bc---821892162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsbluebirds1967.com/clients/b/b5/b592d679e9980e62d9d56be1bfb8b6b6/File/jiluxulakoxojulidajemopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61e2956a312bc6fee84eeaca421fae06/natedulazinataru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/netovipavisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202106210943369099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/jalodogewozejowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/18182282776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eqcpbhnjuoojm42pn9thsi0p3/jumuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/bizirafobilorene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc37a1ed70712f41b32f4fa797ed369c/48731735578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimoandyuethui.com/clients/69227/File/10625737370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/vekilomafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607877e24eb8d---77354601537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab99a98f7c0---bedanomumedutakavaxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=casos+practicos+de+contabilidad+agropecuariaPDF 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_off0000ec32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC32 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 1a1fcd930745c15a56ea459167ea2f246ba4fc0f68b594768971df7e6bbbe7af
font_01_sfnt_off0001054f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054F 17900 bytes
SHA-256: aecfbd13d51c92d874ba1dbe05c42e6f713b5f36b62485f30af9422baf0b56f6
font_02_sfnt_off00013331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13331 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1