Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86036e30de2eef66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:33:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e4204653ff7f3d6305c89fca3f4690e1 SHA-1: 9fc1139607e9547224180ca265117a03efc0147d SHA-256: 86036e30de2eef665dd4044c2142b454aed2dddf26d79ab3e5e278859d69e9a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and promote these malicious links.

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kindle+owners+lending+library+android+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/vutosovalonabokugedenalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613534f6c4a47---fadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300a6deb4e6---29868567110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tce.vn/imagesflashupload/file/79565163930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97527141787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/fipugadupususa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/89912684573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujibenudibezuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/lifevikoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f848409ff496e21a90bdf2b93e94c9/18083509487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/nafuvaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/kewifufusivolonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/zolugifegenafakatotuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/16759015624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao38jcnio496vk896g6c5j0n1j/vowiwexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/77498516764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mar3ol.com/Files/files/molik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woykoff.hu/upload/file/muterubobejemebonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613425846c4db---72690630328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/53631297998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41083633446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/nubofokalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5f437d6eebee3d1d9d76a34927b37a/raruzetopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/10054952720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/19530268013.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_off0000de5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5D 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 6080a2719b247e20a6857cc916ada5bf00698398bfeaf422e72231b974a6f281
font_01_sfnt_off0000f792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF792 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 76ab7a9d60a5df0264e445a49b3a032d80b0ba5d764630e13fe49c75cd60ae8f
font_02_sfnt_off000126d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1