Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 886aa0f9f28784c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:06:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0027e6a64f1659516dbeb0a65e4a47ac SHA-1: 1e09f68fa049bc5f541c7b6135f88e4b43337feb SHA-256: 886aa0f9f28784c6d315d8376bcfb64d1a44a7d48b9b1b9557f4e47c72b27d55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, including those with 'utm_term' parameters, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+platform+to+watch+movies+online+free
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/53950988345.pdf
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/62546202734.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ab6b1663e---zaripiwarumimomenonuz.pdf
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98370467489.pdf
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/84841788989.pdf
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_04DEFBEE2D40C637.pdf
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/62442647258.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsnpvdkna1aiatb7ft3pckj1n8/49405370468.pdf
    • http://velomagazin.hu/UserFiles/file/8362811284.pdf
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/73915006920.pdf
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/84672582775.pdf
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/tutanijetinapabolinutobe.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be0c1468efc65923e16111fd8efe37a5/lalufataludujitof.pdf
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83825185262.pdf
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///60852167948.pdf
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents/files/15787824479.pdf
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/bavuvafuwifemege.pdf
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/vixibusujuzuloxu.pdf
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/fuzaxojizomeku.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb0428d564b08031455c57221c83029a/digej.pdf
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af1c91a77d---bisosunoro.pdf
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/bitivuj.pdf
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2524d25db---napefopevene.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_off0000af4a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF4A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c761.bin
7d1e02c84a6628c0e39593ec3686530fb1d4221bb8026fb7c382aa841b2dfb83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC761 10948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0b1.bin
2d147f2e344aad40edf6c18151171cb36bb7ef9dde73593ef192b480b3ebc0c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B1 15860 bytes