Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 868d9bffbb8caf43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-10 03:24:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1c7aa36242588b11be2760941663dc71 SHA-1: 475c9c61aa7e6eb98b469c6f0af63046c249a7fb SHA-256: 868d9bffbb8caf4323e7d719fa24f2b19359e569fac0182a30e9b27c586af821
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm points to a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tipos+de+diagnostico+organizacional+segun+autores PDF link annotation
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df8cefa92d17ca9824e37e203e130354/dogipadisolejepeluroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160958c29f3cab---33959274562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/fipixegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/bimamogokami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/35562802907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/sedudasumafoxokarusoxede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60988011410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8321418b1730265d656bd39815e4fd2d/xiratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882f8210e51---30692361879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mgf21okm284sqe8svh00ij5i2/mawalupudopimisetujopemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/xebarugeruzole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f165b6dd82e60c1b30c98a263d4b3686/19660507529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/77411868591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterkontroll.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51373230737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64137966155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/15663012318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e754ecf8c---18283063349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/1624667864jazawoxokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/9579677993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/futofaruligigiwajaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/55725264883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/30646588526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamphuhiep.com/Images_upload/files/5949180409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/20291167448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9707ae1305---48546236054.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_off0000ff1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1C 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 34189e80887c2b2b22e29f5a900e9a07f913ced14b5f96b8be5c3ed77157186b
font_01_sfnt_off00011808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11808 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001301a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301A 17232 bytes
SHA-256: bcef5f07cd70be79bc5de42641e2a782766e05c67faf544a8c89ca91fa59aaa3