Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b86dfc8c7f368661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 10:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: be170eca1bf1b8436370910d1ce57dd5 SHA-1: d64c4d8a4c5474f8ce9a929e9ea4e4608cfc4776 SHA-256: b86dfc8c7f3686612edbf575699a7d6f272d55287e60c08cab81f76d8494af2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host or distribute malicious files. The presence of multiple URLs on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c815bcb17bfc4ff4e46dc5f41268590b/64996970422.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b051a69268---jerelexavemawotafisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608866bd9c43b---mipatitowesabuzesilono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/pifekinulifobaxowejosove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/pazadanejegexegibuzejadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/98490241540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4vp6ckffb3nh7a4ppvmgld8b3/likilopudunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/nukusilomuzipefexesefesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0683048a0930b5020b3d1990ce9da77d/44788841546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63374760563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71277771928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/14854031954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/046f5e91cf3aaecb1580151f9e4bd268/fopukuluvegiwekosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/60095183488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orrizon.ru/images/file/sazalivupabukatozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1o993m1n5s8nbs7psffpjval0/45652805798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855eac318c18bb45b557f30f800f56f2/forokapewamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/71499613255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/73507403845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/debazalawopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/kabutozuloduriwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/jezepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3q3o0575k9mh876rc0nb0vdvl/wutewidiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detasexojawuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=download+x+air+edit+for+windowsPDF 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_off0000f4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F0 16580 bytes
SHA-256: cc2c3795a3886dd868a07f1652fc5f593a586e6fb6f48fdcf8d8f27d3e7fed23
font_01_sfnt_off00011fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F3 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 3e900f28765f937e0c3a5ea504d341f94267ea015e706172d7f1fd9eee3f3d8c