Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86d42bea628f61a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-03 08:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: bdfb25a2a9fcb841c53089b4052bd9ff SHA-1: 52fd7f9d6299a816ad52ce9b1a98764075067a6a SHA-256: 86d42bea628f61a6cf41e7fcdd34e139ee05130e2507e5b6bbe025eee82bfac1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or distribution point for malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a lure related to a book title, likely to trick users into visiting the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eef6ec63fc6017ecf775e8bd9a33ec8/rabovuxoxalomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99a9c081213b255467251df06900f968/pedetikenunibudogovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/36903018957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66d8e286e95a023185da09b695291f45/78185039583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/742e7213aeee0bc4df4bcd7717af99ab/nisululunewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca1d20ba5f---jujudetafolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9017e2d68dd996018f7d3d940733c428/zumokurugudadubitotuluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2766a1216ca2fdf97c5ee243db8cf2/vorenemupivojurorurabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/gutufasuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/37242433724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/6593844274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/wuvevefomopifurozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/99761314642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4782d1f80---fetevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503155239960186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c162241e374784efa9e3ab5e8f7c8316/78064968477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6e7f162b8a58aeffc83248ec9c38a8d/zafewobozozuwokepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=thomas+calculus+11th+edition+full+book+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE988 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 45e3569da77b9f2eb5a36bd0092e953c2de8951483c6bfa51a51ec1b7c5e28f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC1D 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 62fde8ae47d3e6f3835d44621c93a4ec5ded2ef559114a376b2feacd1c07b714