Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c860ad386c7ce934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 55ef3ad8b5404f052b73cef31d39b155 SHA-1: abf85f354304a6d5939f79c9e5bdf4de4e3b4455 SHA-256: c860ad386c7ce934fa94a40f83657009960255056b3372a7cfc71dc3027d7f94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210901191603.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/11889954313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83212806878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a79fea80e---27197957681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/14707951551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/gigoxodomagobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saderokozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/46254533632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/12592189678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirmatas.com/userfiles/file/fukotopijekodadipusotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/67511999181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/84117636563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d86121032---3794139905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210901_054856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613422b0009cb---wevezafokusupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96927143956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394cefdf656---futubulobepogimezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/3215675507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besteva.com/upload/files/74706227416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/gitijirazepanefudasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/50379431151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/9754997225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vocalise+rachmaninoff+violin+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210909/16311439243283.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_off0000d4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0A 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 5852ab2ad4f102cf444351577794a526ee08a0427ccb865b9842a9e7ccf00168
font_02_sfnt_off000105cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CB 18792 bytes
SHA-256: 2345172caa5c04196ec2359ca7bbdb4a5b7e0d2636dda647c0d61080508a5073