Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acda8ed098a8158f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:57:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f61e58f998a1834675cbda179dc0d2dc SHA-1: c9e6d853508c4245581cdb2f682c3a4d87b3a82a SHA-256: acda8ed098a8158f981b574fdaa13a9236f039620f98099409892873cc9c779e
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 designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://scuderia512.com/js/upload/files/fejuzarewivumugirasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://merydian.pl/nowymerydian/userfiles/file/dasifefijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e00f6976a4---8124414880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161101f49131bd---91684019730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/difodiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/77458967503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/32538854145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/dupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/tugenolamutiwokomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/9389884340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607778640e8bf---10663827893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/tisenopuvigalojagesivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaaquachem.com/uploads/files/gudumare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcnx.com/upload/fckimagesfile/80655621374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/lebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e0da3f5e8---dafanejebuxabotatakago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/68981459986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a2c17fc76---rawumisakelologi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/waroxiponuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68763034222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/47159288919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/xalidadeselupetarepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/74239026526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58883594604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14843769998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=rollei+35+camera+manualPDF 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_off00013999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13999 18808 bytes
SHA-256: 2d28d094e742f746b676f75600eaef7f1f88a719b9094571c9b415b5ad573e47
font_01_sfnt_off00016a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018240.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18240 10576 bytes
SHA-256: bc88d1df61d785c7f9909f7b6868b0f91bea01a32900ab73a54ae5dd098be35f