Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 186a37fa051c5691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8a053bc8549ca74ac64f8c53211df9cd SHA-1: f3d8ab25ece542efb34ec38fe77a8cb823060449 SHA-256: 186a37fa051c5691c66af8346c664e881c8cde4cb279e15ce2063cd7b5ede4d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. The embedded links are the primary indicators of malicious intent, likely leading to phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ff70d869d37256c23875bee350772d/14374392838.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/patoloduvurovokezafimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/42288530357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/fekuvijuwusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsongphuong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugivizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af9d78b03c---vojoseturemisurerivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58rldn7mnlkpe6qqqihqpl0h0n/76390800606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a5440b68a6f92d6858c442a40a365dd/97806628286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ffcfde065---54200156686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6984ec5642---21196503038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bofuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/51706853372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifitasijomakasirigasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globeksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagomapuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-13/20210613000530303419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hichipper.com/hichipper/uploadfile/file/2021090508465873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/wabagiguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/32423068154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086776a588db---35339385650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c904e1b5ac7---lubobetudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/dosaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j62edb6eanriu0d169msiuvkgd/salufasulapiwimimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovudisurakulafizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71103635597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f1d01fe3e---fobasoxemefukobovakejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/mezusadetokigezipogupaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=debout+sainte+cohorte+paroles+pdfPDF 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_off0000c7b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC5 18308 bytes
SHA-256: 4ce2466b99b5726575d3da7527c1c4fa99872d1de24a9ef7902e9a8c858be084
font_02_sfnt_off00010d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D59 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 02e5edcdd6bbb588f91a7b25a5e62dc77071bfa286b6f29bda007d83f9011e9b