Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 686be2409fcf2fd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8ff67037433f9762646721319f19d5cc SHA-1: d7f03f90fdfd789be4e6dbbb1e3651e088f0aa66 SHA-256: 686be2409fcf2fd1a74ceebbdda2cb02b4d29d4279a7d1a72f277d54541091bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement, common in phishing or scam campaigns. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+bodyweight+chest+exercises PDF link annotation
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fce901a2e5---44644768630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073d621cd789e00e48164d9288c9d73b/47347790367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072361fcc4b9---16090804460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096df5778f58---86092825901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i8rr2r02a5eb3rcebtrfk5n4g/porageped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cfe930a88ede6b81bfa673f033ee59d/radelilipomanedisobanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/mokidodegagokefekadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/demazemuxavadozuniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/13864660914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uik1l12kmhnq5889a5jqjvpoto/8813735632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cbd8tv7ctitfmf694ih60fsub/35133437652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d208697ca4c---56072084496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/35388197351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dbtmofamqot6kljnotapvqspu/22498595873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb0320a572---59449292585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b935d51059f---mewibudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608932e9cd08a---vitasojunilapunepusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5084877283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/wevobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/8930479416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607031d7099f3---rudobigodire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/23827808331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a36aa7cb74325e97d100f5b34c4e6ce/ferobarasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudawekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/20317511907.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_off00012344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12344 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 702929cf816d48b406f5941388ef037306dcc9f38c426a9c1dbc0dd027f825b5
font_01_sfnt_off00014eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000166ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166CA 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 0448d315f109268628f1f2f78a541d17ccbaf87e7ca3b2d941cbf26368a0834a