Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b71c9c56ee39c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 23:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 756ca1c42503649ee0663be594742945 SHA-1: 0f9dffdf2fdd66c474af20663ccd756a1d3083e0 SHA-256: 86b71c9c56ee39c8f1058c95fdea45589fd7ee400fce5e6c9c2968a44b60187a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or phish for information. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading unknown content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14742525602.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kcemsp.org/upload/editor/file/zexesefeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcsteel.com/uploads/baiviet/files/37454979456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608254ad31674---dosomerozokajimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c328dacb9d7---32334990605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/1907434400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100f50a9fb52---46515992881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosoxezizevuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/genozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/14652698520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d967d370b1ec30b46ca6201e725d114/dowetivuvagivekuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/gumibagisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22611290556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nz/upload/11078301838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/perogule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/26400604088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_23571D0D140F6F82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/33460651455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/zijarilunuxifupesobixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b11e1b99ebc34a0ec599bcaa25e364/95604595503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210511173233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839bb2bd51a---firojafomolixenewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=far+cry+3+apk+download+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954ebbe817b840c9469f84108c7f1594/17786084924.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_off0000d2e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E1 17196 bytes
SHA-256: db35635b81b6a82d1661cb69ff8238d099e89a39d1e880ad6deb996c7bd35411
font_01_sfnt_off0000fffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFFA 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 4b102360078ed2f5a73b54ebceb64e8fb01e2df93903b871f18917d7c45ee0a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11887 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1