Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e86b7e9f7a5fb14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:54:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7cb24402198823647423166098cc98b9 SHA-1: ebbce3be73a351223b2edfd892f84923767ce8e1 SHA-256: 4e86b7e9f7a5fb140f148b94f2be53ffcc698859e9e6315eb6c0db40f17973dd
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of QR code and callback lures suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into interacting with malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+wifi+with+qr+code+android PDF link annotation
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99083562531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degiredubidudoligota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912011529817074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/14965351338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ph-easycome.com/userfiles/file/lozedanazuborota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konchris.com/userfiles/file/1631728177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/44762832564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/13459445356137128e2e25f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricettebiagi.it/uploads/assets/file/2228095796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/87907045738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixel.bg/img/file/finusakazazogibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5daf077873c939a5625b1d8837491efb/puxadobaxadigezoxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/95152523876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210902115423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaldistco.com/images/file/venakenotafagabevovuxaxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/58905678737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intekcanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43562837394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/verojisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f8fc94ae9---muvojidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seas2010.cienciaevida.pt/site/upload/file/vunuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc47c223d4---91049150078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/16546249367.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_off0000da89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA89 18032 bytes
SHA-256: d133b53a2b2d6095f530937113457c0ebb9738110fbfc2b3dce685e0efc36a0f
font_01_sfnt_off00010991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10991 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A8 10584 bytes
SHA-256: a7f3d3ef1d266effc964a5749cd4561991e9958eb201ebd98f5e32e0869660e3