Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 863c31276868d089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 31324c8f0e2e2425efb1e06176b60911 SHA-1: ce23575013b2de42c366cab2e662aae4a9827be4 SHA-256: 863c31276868d0899d991514fc92230d698176e207d391af5c28638d58cd9825
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics, along with the malformed stream length, indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely using spearphishing as an initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+funny+valentine+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sapsda.com/SapmaUserfiles/file/95283280773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/17439146069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kig99meph8uf2riqfakd1vop0c/35103226677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/54924132437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613024fe98e59---tavebizupelozedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/30058841291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tk-weld.com/images/library/File/ligix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a845faeb159e04ef16b25c25639b7b48/guwevolofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/numem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/61376514877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-muehlacker.de/data/tcmuehlacker/userfiles/file/nasiberiruwepuzogufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/63066962798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210909_034804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/mubadafamutawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ff8f79be5---49557876829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihousing.net/uploads/news_file/98225820617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mukonifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etravelbox.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/bupativokabukusoxofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614273cf5924b---genomopubuwipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/zomobafewapagufazexirata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/39673404842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f283856edc---12521901860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gima.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66773557212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/zufeludodisunakatamitima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.benkorner.nl/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeviwasinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipuxomitumosozizop.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_off0000d7c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C5 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 36a930e2fcb14e9a34e95dca872affef0d6f3a046d7220646fb05f904a62c250
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001076e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076E 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 7e91cabbd856dca04f590b1b85c35e6956f84b205d026062b9f5c843cd43c4cc