Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86db228d9daffbe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-05-06 12:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 397e1b87c045511d9982f75c8d984d5b SHA-1: 77e190da664d992f56c51df92ae21ea57edc1b6d SHA-256: 86db228d9daffbe07116b117ed856cb4929698e4b2541e20264396816f36943b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detection strongly suggests a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=epilepsy+guidelines+2018+pdf
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/retegibu.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f994a4d37---81213647908.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ae39e7435c40102ba8acb8b42e68b2/85651101557.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37367d50752376dcf9a22c866af79d1d/77356407672.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fde142bc27---tabavizetimerogoxeme.pdf
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797e1d9fa25---rivenatovevumavegakazidu.pdf
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc48a24671ea2d2ab5928a9bdd1eb8df/11258029291.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1ad2f182d---fazatopixakobafodoxas.pdf
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745a5bcef80---4827303636.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cgjh9hvpbhn2k055f7u4bfi13/28545802711.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec8dc6fb05---96967091124.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c48c2fe5154547f5dadcc2bffffa90/sonorogofirakexurosat.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810f4p3mblrjb4nj4jk0tnn6vi/21472282383.pdf
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ea0489e5---bukaj.pdf
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/zutatumajezose.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7ec111bc7f48f250845f7f753a60e3/66204145121.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5320a49d---gelum.pdf
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085297760b4a---vaxov.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • 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_off0000da61.bin
928e68f0b6674c5397b23588a873734bded28e760f01e60d49507147354cd03a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA61 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed38.bin
1516fd2629914d7e5324fa37efefad3ea7330e2e22d46cd92b78cb32945972b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED38 10708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001121b.bin
5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121B 16060 bytes