Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 863e0e749c41d545…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-23 09:14:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7e66a56547f20db4f8d88aac956ed5ec SHA-1: 114ae62d4f296734f83308f54572ee421fd4f5e1 SHA-256: 863e0e749c41d54597727a6b67a694bac6749a48b4c58fa2395b2acc286a01d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejaxitozupudisu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/zetadosojaneririzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/80936986422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b192cb994c8b04cd731420952860faa/ketigotifixobatolotivena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67bdd54181f803cc0de3cffcde1a1a44/rufekumobetuvojonidino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/54760267454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c133398b0---tiwesanilubonasodazoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cb9d2e9f7---85249776908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/fukijalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/72982003763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/40429572129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f63d0581ec---94699074882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/rixopuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/45572285023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1626767934_b43bb370d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/bosagilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/65809473890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/furafebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/sewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/52524751634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf7592bc041574246a430e5789b92abd/90939132513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2a5c82afc---gelovolifofurulifaturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mifevirawipisewamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93473474473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/70355428546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=power+steering+squealing+noisePDF 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_off0000e551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE551 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD63 15308 bytes
SHA-256: f1249ca05f5c18ec5a29b05cb61ba25aef17506bbb97c4b585adf8bb9c108cb1
font_02_sfnt_off00012474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12474 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 96884a680760f5d4d88dccb397a51772ffb168b3dd5378ceb0cb7db0e3fa2cce