Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86a4109d05392860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3b36e32724b6178e2318e49e045f03f4 SHA-1: db714221f42f6190fc894e58aa1ef78a40167210 SHA-256: 86a4109d0539286094e37a62343de672a0884eb96f86a3a8190fe3820ebe1310
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern appears to be luring users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hard+questions+with+no+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/65592784410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbc61d690b---xikudasijugike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/22201757645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0dd13ba3c---30650559114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3d136c803---gijidigafitakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3223677e80---22949568212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/sakidaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6319937d4a8d03cabc1074520ceba3/5266130492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/gunogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/lowederufelavaxegeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d06aee3bafd---pagoxikisudabunobafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/virebezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dca3aa89b653a038ec8b86df84dc195/vukarebuzerijepobedago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e08538d26737f16bcd3076835fd266/zapavojamupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c38096bfe418d9e2a08ed5c8964906/99994930471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longthinhphat.net/uploads/files/18549722723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9686da71f85b0e505dbc3eb538475400/sifabubexovasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bepevusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97359a5e1eaf6a1af432054e46b7b30e/befijanaxusumigaxazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qlbpqdtk7cd33hjk46vba27q5/begevogisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydala.com/userfiles/file/pomesasipalisoxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09c84dffecf666e823f1cf5d0adac3cd/99340707981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c38d0f3ac0---suguguribebupirulugujori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607161934f146---39377761981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4b242f5dc---88833478821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lh6egan0603kpbvquf8p5hsrjp/weronak.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_off0000efb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CB 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 0461c0a1a573d43d3d385859c856951e9895de8acd928a17b267ab0940b7b59f
font_02_sfnt_off000131f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F8 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 2e58c4f7861ed641ec067c19b9f3136311efaaf7e22d9904205bfb7af186bf2f