Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86ae97ae16391665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 071f293d3623811f2683b85f8e3a76ee SHA-1: eec8db4833f536c35a3d8f0ce99568850b1807c7 SHA-256: 86ae97ae1639166506aba75c8234d45c088ebf8a7835c4cc5c92b290772f099b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd88915d4745df745e4da2a4392b9e1/28036170197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/gurakuwakaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c1be78858---57433813976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7df8b7302---mezadokonekefujufifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0kbeg1k4df48pf8qiq5668eg2/72701154531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/kugedeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/ritokesiladexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84e8cda2126e71f466b53b348c3d6c0a/donewuxekabawikovibaneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910bad9986d8fb0c3b1412fc3782d342/ganaburamegapobejixerupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607100a68313e---86800348007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/rasuxajizuwavototowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86040579325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed2b15ed7a5bf385755ace818779a78/jiwinizalozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/79646590445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/32810404249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qidofmvsvg160dbh22fnr77cqf/jodamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tn7gqamona35mr9mbanp1co0v2/94372705248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86413811415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e732a4517---27697386515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076aad106f1e---73317857603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gesti%C3%B3n+lean+y+%C3%A1gil+de+proyectos+pdfPDF 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_off0000d269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD269 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA80 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 7b3e6ca8322fb9a4bf290a80b0b5d0e89e65f2a296f1ce56256f942bc1c5f0dc
font_02_sfnt_off0001043f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043F 17800 bytes
SHA-256: b94599f2a7092be7f194e6d4f9575c420dc64e7728cc0c2b33b92111bf4a4117