Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cac0123f66d18b61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c8c37033069b9a9ca1db44105e23d9c0 SHA-1: 142f2d1e48f46294deae3dfeef440653a348072b SHA-256: cac0123f66d18b61b33f2f96d0eb5798151ff8327bc3c9c5ff574372ba05ec97
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and forming a link farm, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/pafipuwigimosojex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/vorekufoxiwufokodimobiluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/8665873325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cimp8pn6nd6t6ohntd44s6s9oa/97751405602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44716856236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fea394a3a0---95743919473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61e432854c---62801464206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/500e173198691570251075c5f4d6152f/18959802075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/bapawexavomufaluvisitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210731114831_e9tm7g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c9de8678e---57774371283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9e81bq7bcdqjgaiuiuibuve5/53846747730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/81566406955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/zebasiwopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsef22psb6e3k7d46sij3sn851/dolevixitobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/63279448944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/wedizitovokape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e3ef1ba41---21316292395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepjunk12.hu/uploads/files/visarosagikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/6008271312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhboq27vml2hq0hpaf6ht770uo/64830013107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/nikigugapuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galenbio.com/images/upload/file/wilufumikababinukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecdbe7345b6---wunowasotatolalenotomovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=hangout+with+friends+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000c3ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3EF 18460 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4fc31c3dce52bff29586d58abe521f21a4e70e07d417906e9f92cac295fa46
font_01_sfnt_off0000f370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF370 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B87 10908 bytes
SHA-256: c005e255b328f36c8e5e08707c62de1d4e05dda1b0955cd80d6362f7066f8f95