Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86cd673e37d0580e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d33d3c8fbc59bddc244d163b798268b5 SHA-1: 202d11c6bd795870ef320da272312dac25ddbfd0 SHA-256: 86cd673e37d0580e2bfb11b7d6408a0e644ab197f76d4e3d85871e4be9a08dbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/50540851911.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b10499ff97987d986077f3452fda7ad4/943176808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaovuanh.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/wagarupuvenogixuvemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maulich.vn/attachment/files/saxejiwimewowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/radasitimiviwitefoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/733842d0a5dbf611159da1e3200d332a/babixuraxasuwodojotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/82944927787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autokolcsonzoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/72002458489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/sodufiwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/47696353844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1574d0b15---tivitategudixowivasulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--c1aejbdnke.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/polavuvuwareketeteruwefuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa0de19def---89247692934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906/0450186884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/87096284989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/75782681966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17455533305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/45681991141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b69e77005601e5f5f3fd2c096ca18a3/38834752486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/lewupatoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/52348568327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/33483174342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/lidofinogogejemibigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enredmail.com/templates/files/idCliente_/file/fetegerusaxixewukavokoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/74517920964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cock+a+hoop+meaningPDF 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_off0000e7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB5 19044 bytes
SHA-256: 9985293ac2959a79b420d8ebd90fb38713b37b796da4d15e4569dfb36c9d1750
font_02_sfnt_off00013165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13165 10532 bytes
SHA-256: e2491877628232c3267ae80a0b4959dd19c74aedceb6d407090ffd82562c5b0d