Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 866cd117c1c59aa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 20:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8fa1c86e377aae858d82a4203bc86d41 SHA-1: 31dcb93786dd047c54204a51199e5891fcd4a854 SHA-256: 866cd117c1c59aa08b7de1870c4c9fca55a12b4b2e797f7f1d861f325b566311
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file impersonates a cloud document sharing service, a common lure for phishing attacks. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious PDF payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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
  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mettere+file+su+desktop+android PDF link annotation
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/56326758125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fac4ad13b3---rekorozuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/jarifibagamilanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/fupusozexinezolere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/17062782878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/31548586426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/pobadunawomiwukosudukidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/31870647575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jujijosevovomumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_62126C86E779822B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46774538207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/jovumida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f212903bf7---49422563159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/nojanuwidatekaxerezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/kibitipokuboruvomumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/12844231856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutexomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/dogenaxumetemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210909165310405236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65833353131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/borufidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokidesazimuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aasghsflqsae.handylover.com/upload/files/82351533311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/7635233599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/tetomosajusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca1a53e44c---rolegol.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_off0000d0f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0F4 17864 bytes
SHA-256: d755c80fc25600127954a182ed3d16c80ab49b670a31fa791916dcea80ac2f4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1B 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 2b17107c2f8e863120924bb08b4e9299486dd1bcbc5c7a8b75abe697b0beedb1
font_02_sfnt_off000117b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1