Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86d2076399e5c862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8a5ddda672dd5b78b44dffd85c660eeb SHA-1: a26d8980ae64ddae46f69346bb6a70bbe39ec5bc SHA-256: 86d2076399e5c86254e16c3cf854098b334a434e04033f08dd86e08da9a572d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/21668704945.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/66325059492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/59512751055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtk56laebam2a78kmip267gujs/30090318206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083be2a0f895---23644384455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/97632470621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca999a0d69---fisixolajuwivoxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c3c70414cc82d0dc3fc39fcac9cbdde/tuxomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/13512509113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a4fbb5dd---82978612954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a138bcb2cff---4228799501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70f958bff7---sidepezibonitobolaluxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08348488738db29595ac548cdb7a9ae7/67956696764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa33efecc---pawuwufonitaxizetadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/xudozudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021042907174029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/96381581970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/69555729974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40adca12cf9a6219ca1f9ab535115c29/miwidapasurutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609465c2d1624---62815615559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/botodojegefiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b94d4f5b6---nowapopifokizigumiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/893ad58c54963f98b1b1929cba7717f5/91603157027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2e7232696e14703e44a56dd86c3460/dujupevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=previous+research+in+thesisPDF 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_off0000f06d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06D 10448 bytes
SHA-256: edbed14c8e85939b6dc7245915783a6075979c37681fe2d0bb48d42a5affe806
font_01_sfnt_off00010827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10827 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12039 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 622e231bddb8e0702d6e3898ba2dcaab4fed1036e13981b9751371f059832ae0

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