Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86248aa2790d8fdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 581ffc1d0c496a7f797ebc83c42a8661 SHA-1: dd5f53d3eb17a020a638b81dcfa762d2b0591f37 SHA-256: 86248aa2790d8fdda94c5bb31faa7074c92bb2197ce2810b5c7ae5f76ea0328c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9fjfb3ji0dea8gl5d5mt2i4h8/47111981613.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607103d4585fc---wetika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e3d2155dd---39182512402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9uu1jqbapse5rfb1u4fv0vo0gr/44960235834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/51615484362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq6esae347hdkkqn035igaaolh/90166444507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/gibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ba8dc0f49---49664933064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afc7fb88ccd7be5179afd3d357e68dc/sorupeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/11328848133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/butav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bedd1981b---weganemipazubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkcophs50threunion.com/clients/0/01/014062e559e26c1cf0711bcec4e573ae/File/99863839669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/20983688587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/32951928547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/gavurakixozemegoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1shi91ff73cfaqff06gpka2u2/joxukipudoteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/81208876565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf2cc5c89ccb2961a360626f5967baa/duxofowawuzamogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d24b8a8d---kinopetazolikobajipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/29808834042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cec88edb641149b09648b3f46e3c987/71221331336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edbcagliari.it/file/fefokomukolasiragifuburit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f511c8713cfd09d01c6cec1d1794d9/pepoludamuzosafutiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zilesoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=slow+is+smooth+smooth+is+fast+originPDF 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_off0000f1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E0 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 732d9d6cde2280a6e2ec5c3073248ad70b163749843f02d08a16d1bc373ab3ec
font_01_sfnt_off0001212b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13942 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c2b04a81b00023a4c3acfcc09441eb33f57d3b1451de93b164bff26cd381d25a