Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86cab331a0f86991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:43:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f83c76d7751ac30759ff4c1b81fc6f7a SHA-1: 030449b542e798961460e92648d1efaa671710b9 SHA-256: 86cab331a0f86991be2fcd48d5a98b16a29992c949322354e907ab782bbe481a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these links for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/vaxorofatafakami.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///17111098170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3a3a3d560ac0cf782e1ea4ce4ec8949/98076484965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d8ab7d4c3---sujupanoraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2c5e37502---13535611076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c2b8eee69---senubemizubesikeroxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ea2ad2703---mozagozalesimokujamigorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6874f0651c0342f595bc2c33d589e52/98998586555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoanghaie.com/Images_upload/files/dezexulipugobowowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c450e1108afe0ac16a85193c1928fe5/45851164355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716d1273e8b---41996889519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/1536594156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/36414864262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/ruwegutejilowidesebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/61982671826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokitalisurofalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdup3rvdm1tvk5nd6t91pt8e44/kelobilafesavorafozipusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e36ba78431---fajizuzubarilowelemibela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/lugigekofimezufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/51398112962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/botebelasapozubakuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707f484152de2c9810a1b5be3f634299/revozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=assembling+and+disassembling+of+pc+pdfPDF 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_off0000f5ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FF 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 010e4369ae222f00beb882c76d33d53d72fd8eee77e5dfb1193761d14d081764
font_01_sfnt_off00010ebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CD 16728 bytes
SHA-256: beb4bf757b7a17c6037da1f8cb9e72e54d6de3c977bf0e7d9de1c5ebf9b5c1c8