Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 886aae77e54b06a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:17:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 579b49490d2e13a17263215b16ec8659 SHA-1: abf08c8ed8581b5c8f834d08dd31eaca47549a9f SHA-256: 886aae77e54b06a8b8c3c75eb1410d982bd2c7a5fbf8121c803daa2531d3cf7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to compromised websites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery. The use of compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting for these links points to a common tactic for evading detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sterlite+meaning+in+tamil+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b453601aab0---lopoxugalimupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3b94003e2---77213246702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ek7mt7k8qa6i241osc5djva4/61823029786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/ziritile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/55490761176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/12039315571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/61674742556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2jjhfcn9bpjsoki6r0mmtqora/bidoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608751581bfcb---7853923975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/82374785879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/4772031275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkm0jq7a601e9b36if3ra9m9b4/bazegidupoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/65291815205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/dosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevenhillsgroup.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4737299514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/kabekedesev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/69801716103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/47331032751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/bupiladewibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/zixuxilukenexezinipufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/zikogexiredavebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elpcieg6lqp4j46rq2qvv2db71/89345392559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/74039680327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9cfbedb9a---zizozevevipazuvaku.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_off0000f1ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BF 17776 bytes
SHA-256: f08984fa6ee6d239d983a784664007a1db2db513992dff6fb36ca27eb2c71b32
font_02_sfnt_off000137e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137E4 10628 bytes
SHA-256: e8212d5b3113fc7aacaa04b8be22ae20a1b2fa224f3c8f7551f4c948503c6f89