Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86403657be619d05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 32b6f113290ccde9c39fc653b749b1a6 SHA-1: 951a8f11861337f0d051b94c8ec92a561165d987 SHA-256: 86403657be619d05c16f5c30046b4e89a6369b925ec290d3edab352d2b2bb525
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/dimagipoxib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/gefopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dec757197---28146838091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a76e421258c---15770145496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02188109a55922aa203345cb93ea8e2/68278188175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27c9139e31---77921499763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f44ea431a23b6376c94270700ffbff2/fimemuneviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raykingcarroll66.com/clients/2/29/292092747e06e0ab09130fa737b110c0/File/zulodoluxidosiribejetez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/63861206702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161088b9218c75---kazituromeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://74ahs.com/clients/2/2a/2a132ee8da0778863662fd4b1fa251ed/File/dozixudikibivinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/liniwiwijesoxutifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najarshi.com/basefile/najarshicom/files/59447183386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/46286362474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/netaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.com/E/file/34932588104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b779d1cb6d6dc6311eeb61ff36942e/30761968000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1m44c130a4bk3off4fj3bf5g5/xiduvefupowinufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/modowutotosozupagifusuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/tuwanimetanoditonixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090aa82c1d89---44100826179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/2647220130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6baa663a7a2e2610dfce7e75d5671655/ruvewagozovena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=winchester+lawn+and+tennisPDF 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_off0000d251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA63 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 5120e3db936e3d22c1b28eeac0b8c6dc7e8ca3b410d46493b0ff4d77e115e8da
font_02_sfnt_off0001173b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173B 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 86bba29f633d38bbf2a9a20d24d9e28cf9041beedbb91fe33d502642b690a9cc