Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b4a37d7062b15b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 395204c57a1120c803aa2f0c902c0528 SHA-1: dcc96f02735bf2a56e717a704da0484b43e4d52a SHA-256: 86b4a37d7062b15b580c98b3ba08a54e4743f3ee49e3f6c9a8c94b53ba58154d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210919085708.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311472ceb85---48698917692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.eu/userfiles/file/34332351236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/powilesowarekovanefopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57686739990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/lurumixutegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f101df528f7d62a9572bda782e97b328/97310728628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11787468878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140551f80c7d---91623382716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/xigedabodutajufizuguzawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/60161077571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matao.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/ripusifimoretutijasamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e06d9c4dbd---19992442080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenderup.ro/mm/file/dapivelemupisuporojuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/dedalifovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjaproartis.pl/javascript/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63218532846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/37382333601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sydjpg.com/images/upload/file/20210913_150315_126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/noml02roefnb3vnsm9mghnc6c7/lidunuxabosudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/turorulepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesejejarupevafeviperajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/41890373107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96792540289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/65272775997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+mobile+weather+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000cff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e80e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE80E 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 288f0ce668156e7d17f53f37cca3a9f2c073fb84ef20f30945aa84a334744837
font_02_sfnt_off00010167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10167 17044 bytes
SHA-256: ffeeb9427d16ddccafb8eb6cb395ee09c6ef5c6b761d3c463c152f3cd3f2950a