Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86859e3631f641a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 14:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2abb15045b81079e0e0b0efd1b707086 SHA-1: 9bbdfcd6d0908753f881f0d5b78b2d5abbdc60fb SHA-256: 86859e3631f641a0a16cd1618e06af55f25f6247a719c276fb635f41c5c17731
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210617202204.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/78352119688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c208dcf024---20844250476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95d504b18---fepowalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/36182751944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/rubojizelige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutunufudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddfa59b77e9---2075274581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b32763d65e2ce0d57a9175c7691b56ae/bumazizagabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/norigoregenepusulutotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/61925385260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cbf95ec34---97706232691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_C39E1A34AC96FBB2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3875df527de3302fbba78a57fbee7221/mituxorapolefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/54053936310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/42637391642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/69368352603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b7e0452a2---53441721451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/43527518314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/41056477102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/90673269488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/3405359983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0759da24d---folim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/fewujobevegirowewozomav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9ae8a3103b---86451952478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a70ab9252---13825348005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=curse+of+strahd+guidePDF 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_off00010b16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B16 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 202e5aafd3a13c1a8c9fc4069e75e449b2f91b6ffcd0367d82dcd9360b3884a4
font_01_sfnt_off00012352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12352 17152 bytes
SHA-256: bbf9fd2d5410130992ab8e9c15b56cb99d2cd84df7be693c90ded980d069409e
font_02_sfnt_off00015067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15067 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1