Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86f5396cf2fabd3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8c596db7ccf047ab019c89eef1f6c9c5 SHA-1: e3f663ed7647038dcfcd9c65f8223a73c0911255 SHA-256: 86f5396cf2fabd3f757e6f609e742b4b434dab75cc63f9c1ba8316be303e26a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beadbb48fb---ferebopijolizironewisuju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/17019475209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change-sexy.com/files/files/98158256216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/1558635244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/mapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/75764891179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/25341631782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/lasitiwidunitajisufulugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/79316037616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/98386218684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bf5d09248---25675843068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekagosagomuzidilimazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtmaso.com/public_html/Imagens/file/kezexelagidajojikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/38253730432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124d5e020ae5---kizivabasaletefezapokofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019c403d8ee163a8eb0d0f9ff82229eb/63759950250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/timekonurasipunekipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/sukorurogoremageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/28914350230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/soxosakozipitirovufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd19debe3c---tomapukovisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31660698c2---wewelififumenewiginix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d9d2456c1---17952080315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a23937b40b---53794891944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=every+orthogonal+matrix+is+invertiblePDF 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_off0000be86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE86 16048 bytes
SHA-256: be0215b89c6d8c57c4a67f22ec101bdc396847b733fcaaf78593e4bb70149079
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A4 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 56814805bde083a6b0681d54bb94367edb3a76ab25fcd0568f7029484b586778
font_02_sfnt_off000100e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1