Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86498e616b94cd76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e1dd52065e6f912922232a9778025275 SHA-1: 2a201f5debf5600d9417ae4cdf8fc986d91138d3 SHA-256: 86498e616b94cd763893d1b511911c7688e648cc2a3e47e74eb12aa8d0ecd078
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF structure suggest it is designed to lure users to external sites, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a367f3e5640590e7a7df0aa707667a/lowalutojufozukoliletakef.pdf
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156c47df850fa259c7fcb0f6d0cf2a5a/zikipivoritotij.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3eb36bbc2---suvituduzesolutabiw.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac22eb6d593---568768201.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34e1a756e---28792213548.pdf
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hdmirtghl1ao4vqg9diiokah1/21678628302.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4drot2iqh6t0lijqpgnphhpd05/gevidasoligeta.pdf
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/mijixut.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6528fc82099d0110b49f22197daf0ccb/93737129993.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e3afc05a7---ponevezivoro.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2phfk3mgfjf4cdsu0s21nnrn8d/dusotakibomagamawodige.pdf
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210623024240_8km5gn.pdf
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/54491301564.pdf
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39d72cb025---jugiwuxi.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac611b62224---17290200388.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cb6d0271434bba391040a22f6c03d47/56341385384.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=hypothyroidism+and+impotence
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb58.bin
3cabce583b89c85e6255bef0bf324dae096b3efa029b0af35ef84a323a1e341e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB58 10836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001042a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c3c.bin
a534f064d07e4e4751630ee1788a4f22ff220d9e1d905599eb77cbbb8105ad0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C3C 17728 bytes