Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8864092d8840cf97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:15:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 030c1ed1d5e2eaca0ce062c7b5df2a8a SHA-1: f8685ba73a46cd3bab3ee582d6bdf1f0f129165f SHA-256: 8864092d8840cf979cc0125b8b0901195d18362fbe75238a325f10ea8235e530
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of URLs like 'https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mixed+research+design+pdf' indicates a lure using a research design theme to encourage clicks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mixed+research+design+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/5087983083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91323105648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/rimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duparolawavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/84311041782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327da716322---53601452206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzhj.com/UserFiles/file/48067266938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xikifoxadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090205541520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/vosofenaladopisukovemixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medpressa.ru/files/file/13024213832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/16813701746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/solutepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efd9aed1b7---mavodadodukika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/23793400692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59506599776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/78109550764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/54028359747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_200206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339a511629c---41445777369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ortopediaszombathely.hu/editor_up/29486320720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsap.com/file_media/file_image/file/zoroserizezupizeraw.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_off0000b785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB785 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 0f81e1acd7bf3808671a8026911cb6e26ff4a041734e0f4748bb45217e28ec95
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE5 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 1a37e2c174624f53abd706c8da2390fca9b24d865932596eb79515573560fe07
font_02_sfnt_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1