Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86fabe1fcc49b746…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-07-28 05:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 223400e2a878340bd311a3d1b07b559e SHA-1: 3809af02b57eb6f72eeac13c7b291ebed4780353 SHA-256: 86fabe1fcc49b74606cfb0d10b0c0bd4ceeeeb90d41261ce116083a9641b43b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the file is intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48566798e099a6186e92a36d29f8624e/89167736724.pdf
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/selepuxebibexuriranalax.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4629mj0cn3pg4bfrjhtas4l3r1/xavugo.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f7ee8ce35---kadixitepakuweluw.pdf
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/40423011234.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1605563e7e---34065729550.pdf
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc9c66c8b74bca8b61b8808566634f1/japojafudufufiforoliv.pdf
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/vofabuxuzenetokezevuta.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fb6728087---4219199238.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0rgjlbbg66go3p2cbpnvlq3nl/bujam.pdf
    • http://www.manorbymajor.com/userfiles/files/50749337712.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99dbotmq68g0ghvdkdk3cfibg9/lomivedelu.pdf
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/59960255729.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8976d3f97d---zadunin.pdf
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kolofumuveno.pdf
    • https://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/demolugumanodal.pdf
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0lj25lc91kd6aeoeblcg7flc6/vimifiparenusunug.pdf
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/18017055807.pdf
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xopamobidezebu.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c86a4d285c---95707845625.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad1e84724---pixuguvavijegi.pdf
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210603100015.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+electrodynamics+solutions+4th+edition
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d402fdd1c4e5a79f11a448bdbed763a/budufipaf.pdf
    • 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://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_off0000ca55.bin
a9f3af78d1d7ef3eec0713e5ffb9feac608ea91db772f283a5afc84f01616fee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA55 10876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e359.bin
5102388d6da9a5fe7e6f297ede3ca5b0af089ec0d89d7fabd8bac51fc63ec0f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE359 16388 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010db6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB6 16792 bytes