Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86d761fe2485e716…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-10-01 04:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 50ec4e90f53962642076b308eef618e1 SHA-1: 300a187d1a1ca92d9bdd16499ee2bd50da35bcbc SHA-256: 86d761fe2485e71604d3b93f32c57706b3c0552985870fefa1e84eaaa8cdb146
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

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 https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/68993043032.pdf
    • http://lepetitjaunais.com/userfiles/file/69255364534.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403d59e18bd---90966503811.pdf
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/69118959897.pdf
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/zulubunanon.pdf
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/71335751384.pdf
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/safalevapa.pdf
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/gugugoda.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140993016e34---69039743867.pdf
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/75673314397.pdf
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/vorodinatejasezusomilixo.pdf
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/67511390060.pdf
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujejigidazosobeno.pdf
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/fefimakarakub.pdf
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/5277599556.pdf
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/67058207308.pdf
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/16325208711820301886.pdf
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14732360569.pdf
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/nipexesuvar.pdf
    • https://careerexpo.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78535792245.pdf
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/55673245640.pdf
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/jawexakugemu.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145d4aa6f421---jodub.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140910d91d86---samujufasidak.pdf
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/pubemafu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=see+your+profile
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3a2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbb4.bin
36f68cb7ed2fc983efcd2f02d375de0b2311ffa66ad901555c2e7fd63a5ddbfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB4 17340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f83d.bin
be9cd3fdb2a5920ac924c6aabc664544b706914c4b38c3d845c652aa927de601
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83D 10108 bytes