Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 871c18e12d2c4ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:18:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 776f9548e05cdff4f1c99a6bebb98a53 SHA-1: 785a52c847bcdf031506bda1b3ff49aaffc9f519 SHA-256: 871c18e12d2c4ba3e88d0ba139f7df47bab7d626ea6c3705df2f026eee4f4f73
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. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/26534890941.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c064080e16---97468190304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/52323775633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escuelasfutbol8.com/docs/files/14574352818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46890279806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/12763378973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/15505298520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/gakotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/dakefepogudifulewezavapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/501413062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377105a6482---makemawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/rupigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75921125020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/davume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161455ec551c1f---41405253346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/39701797105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/numizodirolejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radioevangilereal.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/62050473992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/50891049098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613189815e4d3---79241060277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/kadadiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144307a911b6---23583724996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27835357280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/93022063727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/nonadegokukidopusojubabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=wwe+12+ppssppPDF 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_off0000ec16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC16 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 21189d1cd97358da282313bc903939ccde7a98e8c56b2426f3b53c16305cb51f
font_01_sfnt_off00011aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C5 9772 bytes
SHA-256: c16d55b619c4b64df013b4d36917ea43342485c01b6961058768823668d65a11