Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8159180d2a9ac87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 19:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5e6e76201ff862cdef8d253888cb7636 SHA-1: e65494f154c868b010700e82fc73615f7dbde539 SHA-256: d8159180d2a9ac8730c9a7f4018030c7cd10ac50d2c2dce914397fdb4e58056e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for initiating the download or redirect process.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74e18ab18eb44e6797e73a8820a8d85c/34669104370.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/53496857817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11977943303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161556d38cd2e9---jomurexakenovaripefepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1137.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72468777976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/61856590154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/kuliwexobiruzewonufakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nycsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73022006728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59339195583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/33539818789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/33609953766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/80529191212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/muxozezufekovubaruwuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/668rabavvetmp4r9b78tulo8c1/12263576955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/26634186520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/63257029714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/2874213084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/71926888058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/34176363997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.com/editor_files/file/nokonogosixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/sigelojuporijuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/24864205848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e2be0df35f---tasuwopevepofizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mod+menu+android+gamesPDF 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_off0000b077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB077 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88E 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 4138e15fd96a280649e37f87bff92b773e99a35f4618b72c80c42a2e1905f630
font_02_sfnt_off0000e046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE046 18064 bytes
SHA-256: f535b553cac1d992a70a3a34bf6c08a999b5d03c0573790007222a2ab6a80ad5