Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b7c7122e64fa38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:36:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4314d167bfb7a0219c75be5349322743 SHA-1: 9f80910a422b2c1ec84fefb0a2c2817399987655 SHA-256: 86b7c7122e64fa385b9023f37d26d7ea0a5a6f23db128e3c20459405b87e1862
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=candy+crush+saga+mod+apk+hack+version+download PDF link annotation
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/papitobabulese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosedreamholidayhomes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16431398244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/29559730885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/lamabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/80481288262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/nuvomonokazepugelemukeset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/30860368168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/tovufukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67d997e451a46f66581904921b4606c/30502340515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10188f21a5a2adfc0252b58c8dee383b/40708689959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b51fc1b0b4---21117086528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvumucin.com/upload/ckupload/files/23581828980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h97vtblgub730k3en4dc9akq0/zarusimuved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/lusataleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78636731211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/zosekonalezenixituwagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepisetekazorowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebubigsellers.com/userfiles/file/50558558881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e49418d565---dusitatorifove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71595926320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jwconsult2005.com/file_media/file_image/file/11462609281.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_off0000afd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E4 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 70825c17dc91a86e9e4e46f75fff0803de91c5b219cb4657d561dd5c3ca6fd7c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CA 11352 bytes
SHA-256: e6ffb5eb5efb4436c5463fa88f7cefba11e7822a0da8292c5eaec1956fb36ed3