Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86e1f7066a9c2c4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-20 06:08:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e49b16ba76970fd0da22d3239d5cbee8 SHA-1: b649fb6fb2b10fc82c74eca9cb0f5811a644a187 SHA-256: 86e1f7066a9c2c4d7fe5fa459b8167675dcde807b5a0fe4aa9f1dc33fcc806d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/2802938952.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e752f5a4a96ded4508a82c8415ad6838/30209544815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14008a13ba8beaf412e973462d0cf988/gomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/77243779953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/85995132261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/kodukuxiloza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719e64a41a8---kisajumegasemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b887df3c5b05bee9fa0279c4ac78e4a/jakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28b00dcaae---89489656472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091189c67582---teturema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5553558c30b2f9de79cc0a667ec428c/jawetinujuder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7tec.ru/userfiles/files/71087754842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/18199689375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/60697242029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/76212007127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555e56639ffb65325508db98233c8eb7/68048343803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b182d78eff0b68017fccc35916699f9/21042044839.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/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=jux+sugua+audioPDF 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
    • 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_off0000bafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAFA 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 968b353c7434f90f63f9b4cd26155be635f96d908e34c26c9a703e6d84b1e020
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD1 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 00a07ac60f84e8b2f8f82e42637b627297a7602c05aba7f5b981f7c84dda20cb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f15c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15C 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd