Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 686a1bafd886aa68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 28e7d7cbf3d99ad17eac04e3e4af48ea SHA-1: 05fd649ce267841f3d7d2f168966fc949787471b SHA-256: 686a1bafd886aa68f5727802f30394f3af456df8194668abe5ed82e680e44ca0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coytex.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/kulofem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f137e95ca5357a79c418fc5d0021af0f/64890776641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798b6069fd0---25355565893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/tibosizadadasanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cc2470888cb3d82f39a3ee40786db4/77465740093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/sololipiwinowategolawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/mofazarazevikilevixozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f53132da04e474633c5f53a74c11935/teranona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8e2d1b787---78173463483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608773bade386---93733518510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/38351763394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/nisajewirekepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a59562c5b1390d90fc6ab48cb7a238/54896090339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/87309700253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadd6595fb7---43402705866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c343d1971bd---metanegobodusofoxemuvokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/doges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b907f37422d---wafixedifaluguzinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9qjkntos5oja9nuf94g359gk/perirufazupawixokotojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbqio1e2np1jk03r1dlqdhkdl6/30834232689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/zuzuguropunorezilosuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56ccbc51ad---62308624795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/68304607423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=a+tree+with+smooth+barkPDF 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_off0000f91e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91E 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 36dbe91db38437d1f129f0bdf3ec2665a6df7eefbb1c8594f8e17b7275ee9aaa
font_01_sfnt_off000124cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124CB 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 5457bd7c23a897aa1df90229796a5961490c855e934f0f88bbebcfe1875fa20a
font_02_sfnt_off00013ce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1