Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86fbde54bc59c2d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 09:53:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c5b2d42752d173efb1a2476feaab69eb SHA-1: a40aaded79b98bc87d3da69a5d1778245f228ef5 SHA-256: 86fbde54bc59c2d277f91c663edf72d03bc93680f4add43a416ac70fe87d36f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or suspicious websites, as evidenced by the numerous extracted URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarigiti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140354958809---73611804525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/rerebesoritewolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202109210654008126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/mopuvofopuroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/47396612320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/32188831226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db9acacb46---vutusasotofirovixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/busuretasudameteguxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/63940052590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3799e86bf5c7a21b901cc54c7fc4feba/54767244688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/semavigamazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/vawefabovapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/totakujefereribizaboron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/diwiramanadijepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/vosetowagesawumotewejevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zozenabubawedugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/94813635156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/dezaniloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-bbc.com/upload/file/94252581145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135367f6f2b4---54713810842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/80433280954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/ditob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/41451648442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7e71e501d68616defffbece2312354/zalafeluzalivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/kepubirogugopuwegisizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=carrom+pool+miniclip+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b5ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5ED 15080 bytes
SHA-256: 3cdb292da5fee6ebed601b0671260a30dd9dd206f7af982168ff5fea97474dc2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA6 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 46d7034cef7e65ead6ebe4b392889d693a59c656880d84d12ebf740a34243f7f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF313 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1