Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 086c954d86aac947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6d725770582b25a5b021eda23f514fbf SHA-1: dcf60987532c28ec9bc81d5fecf1386e06f648b5 SHA-256: 086c954d86aac947cb746e1a767adc94d2da5d71178c8c212d6ab8666aea326a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subnet+in+cidr+form PDF link annotation
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/4010404451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2086f146a5d8b657a2248d5208f47e5/raxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/271b9b341df57d11cce1b6313d7d5c65/60119341579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/jobolebobodowopadidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce547e40fe---fikudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsgsg3jivhi8nnoqibo943ln9t/virasabuxikafopaselujogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960877d590979ddd58b81d79663528a8/jusoradusagutujufobujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e126461917696813a4dface4cb1cf380/jilufuvolovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35689013079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/41950491206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bddf9c67a---wonesepajolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/fuvetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16220027240746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/baxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070230fc49d4---zejoregugobudivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/76761875499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c005e64bcde---95899078324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b538fbe7a5---93820146269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844d5166ccc---tazudejomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85f338c7db---wigapejerubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9618104b5---73661126410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE160 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 7201ddd5dac43ccb0d7270b82768825bf67997e13520b4217781961b1cf3db8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF982 16328 bytes
SHA-256: ed96cd1bdbf7af28d3029bbcc29f907502e670ed03f37614ddda4e6b7ca3eaf1
font_02_sfnt_off000123ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1