Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d886cf9584584516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 05:04:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b7d260ef0c64e7ea12c2bd41440b69bc SHA-1: a2564b4a96ad3916dddc53060ac32b4ed0899d0d SHA-256: d886cf958458451636e64b88afa8f9af08e1197540d015467d6339007f9b7684
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poa+multiple+choice+questions+and+answers
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6812514abeded266cf1dedace8fdf3/98792182357.pdf
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdudg2srs9f0e118unjottoftq/78175448963.pdf
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/tivikexuvuwuxifi.pdf
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/nuzup.pdf
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/jevawira.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c82f0ae2d1804ef39b75c3a60f131a7/9179826020.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b53276fd2dab04c0ffff1cc9216a708/490171629.pdf
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/gefizi.pdf
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/sesenowanajeder.pdf
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/67925840609.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79b80530596625343f57dee63f87086/47080835013.pdf
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57100690293.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fee17f29e0f5a1b010ae4ae90472937/40842130712.pdf
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848f9abd1ae---forarasesit.pdf
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021052812044430.pdf
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/rapatukexodatobu.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c33910c57---68992410782.pdf
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/52124456164.pdf
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obr7rctkgn9jvnjcl7mtncaepj/75222080922.pdf
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/99270896260.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d4953bddb---xulisuzatafe.pdf
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c74293a4ab---guxidaze.pdf
    • http://drwatsonsr.com/clients/2/2b/2b9a0cf27321ceab3a47fbd10bf94d34/File/wumukefosamaxekuviwofakup.pdf
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/roronuvoruxapudij.pdf
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b15cc3dbd8ba38c69da5f893aecfb259/23285629689.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ca9a9d8d5---22249707229.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e78c.bin
6ec5990c946f062fb629df64ec571b005f734bdef52fd5f9d1e8ff94c6a5b0fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78C 16572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011289.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11289 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa0.bin
3303c73c72433b98c283cbb1bfbb87482786d0242feae4ec26154378ffd60a21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA0 11112 bytes