Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86644984ad4b07f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-08 23:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0dafd60b843aa506020d06f627162879 SHA-1: edea9b6a3f65ce89d8a47c1d83ecab5e2466c1a0 SHA-256: 86644984ad4b07f5391c22cf51dc77b9504bafdbf4554c1996984e0d205a8c62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+start+implementing+lean PDF link annotation
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a68f65d42047ccf98887c24eb5d36c/nepududoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8eb89818c---bojofebalakimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ee17e4fd6485754f2d67910b17ea929/lirogewirigusejalawuxilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/33826761736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1323d7d8c15efca30bfe6764d9980bd6/biramek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85fba84347---14858027868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/bewegelazegukuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55641507314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8789d2dea9f61931a022a2b77c7950ee/85190460409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-30/20210530230133760164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fll0srne1r9oh7ivgd4vqncl9/timinumigakizonewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9da59c33b---saxatawomuvexagubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915c24aedac---60092538267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc9a4e6e9f---zadovimoxejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7e8cfb1d01---joretukuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/68320618877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/nefedozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646a1a7c39a0500ea995731187bc3282/12072915692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/79073427780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8746338921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a8e9dde57---70105097776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_3B479021B79AEAAE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d9a6960a7---49787265328.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_off0000f552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF552 10672 bytes
SHA-256: dbcb256f94d22e6795aad89822dd7fcaefae9de2c25b9452c72351a7b943e6b8
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D6 17144 bytes
SHA-256: feb16f070efb3be0f850c10d38ff4b2b2ed6f60100c66d12648ecd5d12cb2563