Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86eaa6b1d26ba78b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 15:45:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 894753027d0f57a5f4e23a16fc27b9a4 SHA-1: 56d269daef7657164e5cf8928ddbcf26b3a4a81a SHA-256: 86eaa6b1d26ba78bf5977a070744832a4067cd66c6029353d33f93736a500f35
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the interpretation that the document is designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+types+of+ecotourism+and+define+each PDF link annotation
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd11dd3c1b1---sunodudaxetapomiwegetige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/57249878882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/tozifuletuwelewozirabikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/45752144190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hudsonohiohighschoolclassof1980.net/clients/7/7d/7d4b1ad73701457990394555a34ab01f/File/48084758130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dddc421683047333214681ce51937ec7/47234328909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/turirapelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avbtfqbue62hpi1mo39uk7bshp/jatugilipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9dca6dd1eefe94c2c2ab6052d36f29/18309261421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/30794423365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/bofekijujaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skincarebylaura.com/clients/862251/File/19509121210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/89589384785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moduxarorareratasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b227016c93---sajaluralapujitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudovatugimewemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ec2999d17---rulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/47743371023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b6eca7c3---gokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/54508518291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/ziliwezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001af4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF4C 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 55cccc40f90285ecbb05ea307755df1be4565bf40461a190fd383740dca32c06
font_01_sfnt_off0001df86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DF86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001f79d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F79D 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 19e6d1d6ef99eab08a6f576e564679119cd783c0adec408ece0c019ee7efcc2f