Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 860b3a6116437efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-10-01 12:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2261116f40114d79c35564cf0019335c SHA-1: da8ef29a3aefb7b9c041f9bac27cdf016a701893 SHA-256: 860b3a6116437efa1b2bc9396cc354a028ed1682593454b7e2579b0a1aa645bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to external websites. Heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grand+truck+simulator+2+all+trucks PDF link annotation
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/76295808788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20211001132943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d75af1cb53---7077960108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37716952072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/kepulutiraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5703n1n6999-6a55.com/contents/files/sagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/basamidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piturekofovate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b42b10875a3d48b82af2a6894dea8eea/41906930330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/donugizumutisipatiledak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/tifuziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/94332444531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldwidestationeryholdings.com/files/file/vutilefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/jekusogitadonozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9015410960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/92094711696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/47888301960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aa5alfu.kz/file/80242837068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d03cd511dc7d231880ab9694584d7af/dezotafutetososadidimude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/telagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o48jia04l99o1lb5ejlu311dv5/9370138689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/zonenonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h547u5lnde8eq1r3p3k43l1o7o/sudokupuxuzovapoduz.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_off0000af3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC756 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 5815e90d775b9c7462f46b1fc6e758afa4a6ae26991b6c107095f6ef6c5fc9f7
font_02_sfnt_off0000e017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE017 15720 bytes
SHA-256: 83198e767ed515dc916c05897d90e19d5c840b0ed770ecc21293697e2a1d131e