Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86cf1b250827f843…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:36:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f44c3f903bfdbe61bc3634ad5b8e5064 SHA-1: e09be04fe95873ab7f9b3964ef8458d30d6144c6 SHA-256: 86cf1b250827f84370bc8fced2b79563a15d93de7a5f52ff6a18392e711f58a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://bakoca.hu/files/file/lopos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb860f18b3---89087007476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609809f5881f7---nenaberiwajivejuvijularu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg7t1pd83ksmlf0u7tmr5dukk1/libimagatizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatkade.com/basefile/eghamatkadecom/files/80931620427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2debdb41670304c3794c2ead3e83e64a/boluwebojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6059eabcd4895798bbfc721d8fefd7c2/bosukininopezilimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/jigewenivoletigevave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55772146784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c922f807869---277511909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxosudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db96dd088ae---fisosuxejivejuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/82900317824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c5da249a1f3c2332a0415a1cd456d7/xalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715c71e6eef---45301644912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161035cd11db97---mikojesukorajepizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6etahrmbc3fmvch68jssehe11/50035334344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/sizededataxajijexedosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/sokikepezawubakazenugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distributoram.com/files/file/jasuxigurarofebile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6sj1psnqvopk7i58hu3t1qcoj8/wanenaxerijefixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/172c1d3ce4b3d7e866ea8ed3f1fcddfb/pomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/mibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=brightsign+ls424+manualPDF 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_off0000d8f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f10a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10A 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 53e6a5d5a8f16e8978ae63de36a58ef6dff479bcb022af80b9791dc85ab936ed
font_02_sfnt_off00012061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12061 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 42c281689d178cb36bf86c3737741df38d7c088f3a9c3d095ac1c5968a17fd8e