Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c49898f98edc07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f644f907f681ae1fda297e8bcb1eb90d SHA-1: cd9ba467b7ed5ed134fcdd3c6d5c51ae05e2d5bc SHA-256: 86c49898f98edc077b99871b85f6d4aa43dbe36717240dd8bdcc2043be1a6c44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites. Several of these URLs lead to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ubersuggest+seo+difficulty PDF link annotation
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/55178659485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/95594137317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5f34e57c8---peditifujonudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146209d556ce---14568450912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f955e9e171---998836503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turksebruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/xupuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8fa94e5e4---8410873116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/93544721729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/bumuveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tinodusefafozojulibuzepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.disbel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazobupiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373b4eb5c51---97249495640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/17433644989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/30769327432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/matasajawuxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/20059680114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovekerunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/xasasorodovukuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huangs.tw/uploads/files/202109161448156887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613866b50db9d---sanifu.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_off0000d079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD079 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 41e3a6790ab74e1937cb391aa430604f5ca41835452b6e3990d64b21b66a5065
font_01_sfnt_off0000e922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE922 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10134 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 00233d4265b11238891a121ddd5215a957bd13f403715f5cc08642316665de87