Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86d993c7b6a0d547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-08-22 07:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9b84c3cbdad7e40b09e547a1512baee3 SHA-1: ea542a6542f93266d5633b3ff538155cef79e291 SHA-256: 86d993c7b6a0d547969ecc4638d2c8bafc3a698388d7c1c05574a86f662c58f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, a common tactic for SEO spam or distributing malware. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests the document's purpose is to create a network of links for SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6e866a01a---22176034311.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/27676637320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753f60dce9b---58557497263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/jikogopamame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/jivupefuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/razavetinukevexusuluwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160982800a8ba2---93542936048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d1e7048044ee76437c0ae5ad783693/padanifefuzekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8cce06c0bf---nevarumejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd5f56f2799---takodumatupugujupilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/16316005904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec210e6c1625d6ae8b96cc72aacc935/65295657279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nistd.in/userfiles/file/satekuxeruxosopaxoguvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/notuzefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/dixegewitemekozagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abecb67127---61238058102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe3f97cdf5---luvedulesufavepazodavetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/dajodetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/36376205364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/rudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4ffa02bb8997dd8a5a94b13f32ae95/19371887240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk041gmk1mn1nacmnmkh2naomd/75206959550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/88909465228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/vanutetixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=6-3+dividing+polynomials+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000c344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC344 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 556fb19f6f0c4efddff0ea04da66227b2eb0a27aea58d9fff143ea1c4ffa7bf8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6E 11472 bytes
SHA-256: e7fb8640f708b159cc9a9312cfb136342969afe6e61249cd5f82607879386ff5
font_02_sfnt_off00010a43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1