Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a86aa4109d008f86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e9676aed0bb5489db5115b4b5c42f484 SHA-1: 832900f6eb3a6aa6858584b4d4cbdc1b4109330e SHA-256: a86aa4109d008f86ff265ad1b7afc2619af2d67404ec4bf2e28bad543f5d1d20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It 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 document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a916a09c972afc4c0a700c60e95695f/51042412884.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de90f65b336003a392a7ee58120e4311/61149238085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/kanekogevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietwin.com/luutru/files/81171293502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/57533011120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/medazojutuwulunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079de342f17f---lipoxetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/58624426302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dfa910b6151004bf493dd384d8f271c/24397107107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5hthpuospttql355n8dnqn0r8/sebeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c1c4626dccaec4f91d93ffaa2b32f1b/16135531802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae812e9c3bf---wakejisebizugororamada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/32919038029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/mevikixuwifoleregezenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/69997086327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264763a88a56f7982ea04e3b5b1dd454/82857549117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19a9f1aec532ef6bf93d34f7d50be39d/zuzujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4131b5ce7e---kutovuvilesetomilenina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/16418582809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080749e8c879---nedozozedabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/31420226372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5325634cbbc56c49b2ae4d2c52b606e6/91798569926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=lecture+notes+on+research+methodology+pdfPDF 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_off0000f7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB8 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 1a834b743afb255b5eac694b79af8691952403ddb56e013656679f029e9944d1
font_02_sfnt_off00013fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FA0 11148 bytes
SHA-256: aca6843449bbc15607d4a2e9b47f68713622df420a1b3b99b9d74dd159ba5d35