Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86951a88b9fcd346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:13:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7fb29135f34957a508d42c66725946f7 SHA-1: 1c88d634e3bb6cd67a4b46d840b3bc1ab0a0e172 SHA-256: 86951a88b9fcd3467eac118cc79eb0a1b6690e515be19b1dd1dcf5a864de87e7
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document functions as a phishing lure, presenting itself as a "TV series live stream" to entice users into clicking embedded links. These links redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by multiple heuristics flagging malicious redirectors and compromised CMS uploads. The document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to these malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 8

  • 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 links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tv+series+live+stream In PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/womudepugekufipopipitevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/178b51ee6a8bd7d6cab1c3848e144e60/lugijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d89e83b039b1a6fa55ac4f8bf4651da/notekirivumukobikazora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/leroriwikupunepebekakinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://productinfo.in/konadnew/userfiles/file/taxurukuraxololeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/56165480245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d81bced882---9398954456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b649e133f---jetinafiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210921052443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/buzijutabatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/fakupunopetonodojuxovade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/73720485312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://l-max.ru/userfiles/file/47127897115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/38414100084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/dolefibovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurigisesilobiwubuvizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/58051368175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/86019436239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/xerigugusinumepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/96608978132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74295452917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/4569038268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seluwivefoleteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/73854536815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/pagasivaxizefumozopavipu.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000b17c.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000b17c.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b17c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB17C 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 6b1d671fa4e5489b8412603e2e13c3c57edf2c8659c2508eed68022f4f4cdfcb
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F3 16476 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed10e0d1be593974d27bdae1a4f40ce83b82e6576808d9600c8e44161cacd02
font_02_sfnt_off0000f239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF239 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1