Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caa8e86781579388…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 05:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 889fa2732474dfdae437280dde1094eb SHA-1: 8e4912a83376e22f0d28c3e1a14f8443874f5dc6 SHA-256: caa8e867815793887af5e6fb04c45b4fe39b01104070b5ca2fe2b34cb9e82d01
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 websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to a phishing campaign disguised as a link farm.

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://ventiliatoriai.lt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82178324745.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5110364799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82bec162a7a317e395ecc6a908ea8f3/duvovenikazeropiluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rphr8r430gvu5f2u2lqqdjl11/wamuxabasisabiwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/84442563205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfc7731471---44567154940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf7003d61fa---6623721719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de73421b28d83b7084c13760857e64e2/30211905937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aaichds9jnr10sjsn4i9kk1e1/79599059487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ffc18a00ac16bc99b37ed12ee5171f9/50698955924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/10729108890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/84891959602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/dinulibasizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/wovamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e3262d3cc---zeniwagatowutifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogo-rotterdam.nl/files/79790345966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746bfc67ed6---32458387359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/sowufaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/mexamifovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae02b1b4213---jiriva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/vepedolutisuxadenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/wafanuxigijiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef773f0322---misokevororezivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/jufuteporidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+ms+office+2010+for+windows+10+freePDF 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_off0000ed79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED79 16740 bytes
SHA-256: aff33154ee45c5ab8bade04cdb0f96b52e887d70ffa3af73489e5e56ebba764f
font_01_sfnt_off000118f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13107 11008 bytes
SHA-256: cba1a2def354d154a7a0a2d3ff7caa8696da0f618829bcaa41e8bc36f7d6b1ba