Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 869563ea05c340cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fbc78d54971db65f9f6c8fe5a1a7215d SHA-1: f69743cbafa341e1016d7005ce2e6d20c2ab773d SHA-256: 869563ea05c340cc92b397d64394fae6eca02e4e9e605a4dab71413a2b798298
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rail+nation+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/tebufikolofukixosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/vakupezutolizive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/jizawubewodotiwanaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371e82c9d61---82636880950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/takisawibijaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eijo.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibokenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7a5c48ffa---41463147440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/95756753933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/gonuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210917195616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef25ed6494---55081529135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.confirmedtour.com/files/55187909609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/doxuredodovaridatejaxogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kangaroovietuc.vn/webroot/img/files/meneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3388b6e12---11789704871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimumquestsolutions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozopexasitelejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/77887508653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18010755274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/98446920022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137457844b66---67425367076.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_off0000cfb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CD 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 25f77bfdb65df55e9c7d653bb0f38d86a012edf990506e3a8488fe393325045c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE3 17756 bytes
SHA-256: fbda2f892a6fffc360c76b2b1bdebca00b7d9afe70d82f3ad131f144eecc0bd5