Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c3717c68fe9f5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cd206f206e5592889192486de1a56e78 SHA-1: 1be8446a7d83babfc1b72739418b5a01a268932c SHA-256: 86c3717c68fe9f5d3265ffe5dce03d4ce92eb2b26e48502e7026bf7ad284d710
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and link farm structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can embed JavaScript, which is often used to facilitate such redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lcm+of+26+and+39 PDF link annotation
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bd6a43d44---jolabiraneradipotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02e2571c73---votetepedanafedamamoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dukolonalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/93038086550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naucseto.cz/storage/nopoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7665e17f33---korunilamilumarirudiwigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/xefuvenokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5dr37tluu1hav6jm09mua3ov4/rikifufidonasibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/jijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph83s1paoeukshch7381uiibk3/rajunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/xarusibexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210513222557048215ful1gw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726cc01cc7f---75972134519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84a1b0be64---71052965817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c142b29a4bd---sarovepigimumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098157813c87---35759179588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63qpuiar6jho8btqu9tmjvoig9/sokukusiwulemubipuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9962162520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74cdb5ca665135fe67e5be727e967375/lofolimaleja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l5qo8n943fsrd46f7pk8n38vh/larudasudufatixuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pppbda83db37ukc3trp2bdivof/39894871642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/ketilatowigapugadutobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3255a28e0---75041879277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e586982ba75dd40cf9d55d385b385f2a/33110491073.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC29 10588 bytes
SHA-256: f2c67f03e63a6a2e31e78807e0fedb80fb22246b76180822b9aac2f90292a784
font_01_sfnt_off0000e454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE454 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC65 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_03_sfnt_off00011241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11241 16376 bytes
SHA-256: e4242bc358d82d31a3d859d677e3db0dcd320a19da2879fe7cca112a38c06ffb