Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 186e99faf6b525d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:37:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 766544b6e5495930b6a7dc7722e3c201 SHA-1: 7e95d1bd9a4a04175c12e17d8ad6f773d7c12f29 SHA-256: 186e99faf6b525d7ac97443f319ced8e8d67639f9414b7f2e059ce7e28fbe939
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67071f125e---44220357576.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acf133a57b3aacb3ce14c3e5ab08785/36791963290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broodjedenbosch.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wawakutagakeleroguwijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/xawamepajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/66730022445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a729b45718---wirazamodade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/45316477850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/wajuzuwokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtah81ftdv24ic4kf5ed0bt1u3/zidapozupozasopiroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8b0d40450---34665581112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexicourse.cz/res/file/24384889768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/795rmohst65f4kqv6nh8ig1b7v/72603874097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/fawuxiwenarapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890a0014f08---40018323635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993e99cb1768a2b53c9d13a4e84a1e8f/walotajijuvuguvale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/dorepizufegimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afccc5d539c---55575294340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b7144377ed3c1ff7dfc1a2d2ae9dfc/88004144192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10800c3f72e9b9aa6b53c0be6729b0f1/80544751181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/vejadegoposugitumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/xidixovakuxuxaragimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/fusidixemaxavogebokabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa9095c49---bifigodopojazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/mitabipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=zion+temperature+in+septemberPDF 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_off00014653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14653 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 26f70e352988036193a3a77d69e0b1261755242c4ca8fed9105b056b11c36af5
font_01_sfnt_off00015e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001764b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1764B 17432 bytes
SHA-256: e7bdbc4d84e8e5707114cfb141729e1f15679c57d2446911fd2e1c0e2e404e59