Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86cea08d12878e05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b46e1565820f4f3f591f0fd4c34f509f SHA-1: fbe364f8f7c077b4325312edd778f8da3bab50ca SHA-256: 86cea08d12878e058f280f9bad0a32f5f0abe290673a8550c90fe02d4343257e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The file's structure and the presence of these links indicate an attempt to exploit users through social engineering or by serving a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=non+living+things+that+require+energy PDF link annotation
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9926fe8eb7---74514284459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1732a87c498ace0a83f8b88b2e69a82d/kepiwikewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b80eae016871d4f693b6e635f2f6339/gosuwudilimedabisebajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/jefosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7a9f97cd1---52890505012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef79814692---97337492666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da65187f2feb904d28435be3aa44ecac/41754293634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f76a0b4c7---35605934717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e9f3268e20182dafe7d11e6bd4048d2/gonexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d221b7a5fd3---juxexezelafudexuwepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608332ff47707---gisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c244ea13f---sagedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/99669283166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hiok5s1v3or7gdg94vdrpskc90/93255182947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/19394304426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074313d427b4---dapekukenilepejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f944441a5e---98876036184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ec554849c7562c986f7a9c48a93d578/29344611350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd5130b4c0---68621717004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ac25b2eb3---vikabamevuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08fa8de064---boridodopepifogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64217497481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/473294382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microlana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetumewofirabanupumuposi.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_off0000e8dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DC 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa81018472c4211035be9f501cba1865b9a1927eeca4720bcef35582c3737d3
font_01_sfnt_off000117bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD4 10792 bytes
SHA-256: d97de60d17bc83e1b96327965c7724f2b09f88f31719dd507b6cd7c2489233c0