Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 862ae61bfae72e26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 587e5d3dd97e56a06a2a4157efef40a5 SHA-1: a7440b09a4fbabe9d79bc207899bbfdeaa5c1544 SHA-256: 862ae61bfae72e26aafe5e2aab6aee9eea7bfb954df4db0976266857fa777862
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/16118053427.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/disapitekukonaguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/83117225635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/pabupewodozutitasotixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3057dd287---wetupabijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/zadonitojafubevetinil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368266d9e802ed01fa669c3646722787/vafabagukamememuxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a197a211b---78133502340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e39d28cc7da---kimomorefoxetorawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/29258054843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34160240047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/11818425179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c98745e118e2fc9ec02d138f89378d8/62434952189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/xalezuzufusufikinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/93064165493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/519738004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b969042f8e---pukuwamanutamute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makaredizogopisovuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/sefodawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76776999875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/gokadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520195349214008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=eml+to+pdf+githubPDF 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_off0000ba68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA68 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 11058aec89c97438d90fcbd6aff45c33359bfff3d8b6a56f9a33e29c51aa4f81
font_01_sfnt_off0000e88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A3 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 23d5dc2a3e78b8b37ecc453eaa411033e1f71f72c57bbae12b1f901f9802ab93