Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b9a8b63c58aba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 03:15:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5edf192421157183cc057ce02b7644d9 SHA-1: 9e38843369dd9bf6dc3f0298e1b9f2afa8a6f193 SHA-256: 86b9a8b63c58aba5148656c145702dddf5c256e4ddab6395c100c115e271cdcd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates an attempt to track user engagement with these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310de994798---wofolowat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f6cb3c3cc---72759305384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f2f7e048a---menexuwenodifidazajeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/befabifagixerijuleziseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/tukeduvepipevowona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhacollection.com/images/files/fopubodijerexapazavej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazetavk.ru/img/file/nenepivisuxisopive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/4171861800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/5461897128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/zimiranid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madame-tina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27572724445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/16658535278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taturerajosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/26924545409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202109010504541819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/musiziwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/bediwafejejaxotejagugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hexindechem.com/upload/files/30289020511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/37639872095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theipbuzz.com/images/file/74529907267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/vixolipaxetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mx+player+pro+for+pcPDF 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_off0000de1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1F 17868 bytes
SHA-256: d279c1299877e0e9f937cba9c742bc8173c72515dc7821b709477b87a98eb072
font_01_sfnt_off00010c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C32 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 46bec9297f45f6167e300d8f2fb7bd21e4cae26538572002490b3ad68ee4a7fe
font_02_sfnt_off00012359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12359 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1