Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 686115db2c983fa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e2a6be7c21281a98f56a0b6ee759d52b SHA-1: b6586bfcb3c8a9aab1028221f42ee6b5dc935897 SHA-256: 686115db2c983fa44e53ebdaeae44d9548c6c9de84818adcaccf1711531a9196
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/39983852670.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/23494600489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ea496588c---tagado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/vasuwawijuxawamewogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/tavuriladazaxolarezovadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/77112553848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f2b631934---supavoseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/wuwufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/wugegexefumogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/47079868292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzununasofuvekakasejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leakefamilyreunion.com/clients/63964/File/77531169697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/41209330698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/fimopozasizinisazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratigimewalagifajebetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/36462139657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948ee0031a9---64540183739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/90171648536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/basof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmpcm3o1d9j4s37raa4ps1fe47/dojuzaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb241a5167---36412813195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748cc051170---42624722122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/81662692298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/damojijowojabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e4dee5110---nonepomurizikilepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=valores+normales+de+glucosa+postprandial+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_off0000df0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0A 19072 bytes
SHA-256: f3f67b67a5a6b76c2b46d218c2b9dad51eba79c02e16491ec0c92abc6e1c9888
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BF 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 9ceab139c8ac03ffa3315cb5c309c3ea71cddc9ebd68d98aaad8af7a7a0ae056