Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c86797d78fd4e97d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:59:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 392e354ad121465a50a18d028ce53bf0 SHA-1: 2ad402fd1f05015d9b9e9ce1005daa673e077626 SHA-256: c86797d78fd4e97d0508cc9721fce19f1a595909cf3036c2e8c3a5f9a81d185e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and the high ML score suggest a deliberate attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://digireg.lu/upload/61346037445.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tan44ck0qq2qcjf6j79fe654d7/dijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210723205201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009f98f7bb644458ad7d71346fe0c4a3/72859440374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ec142k58rv0ajif2r77jf3f3/finadaguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/10379479194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runikiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/dolizozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/php96pk8c4eb45sf092jrbgblm/vifoxixafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/80138698278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipedulobutorejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/73758443909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/98169249558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/muvatudirugejizedila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pepudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed6346fd3d---zojuxogumupedefudamadetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71914702269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f8703c2af0de752c666b334f0ccf0f/54808412270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rnumekm7c2ihurcfh2fc53qu5/sizejisirobaveliwato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b293c81582a7666bcdcefe2a32686fa7/51154271581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/pubajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa40bb9e58c---27493107938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f41c686311---rifabaxajidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/98355372179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e51b93091---49222389219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=q+skills+for+success+reading+and+writingPDF 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_off0000fe8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8D 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 9f2d8e30dc515fa0cdb6672c6f0d07104058c50ed82f151f619a66638456a52c
font_01_sfnt_off00012dbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000145d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D2 10988 bytes
SHA-256: d133ab9d84c4be88295644890b26f1e12f75dc68bd943be8732ecb17541f26a8