Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df86d5d91a1e010b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a59c8779cccff3e4b5456de8a897f462 SHA-1: d50d2bd11e5871ffc663e00a71a49078886b07de SHA-256: df86d5d91a1e010b2077c652e689e9f2adcb6ba5c09cca75b7575db0c42d6c89
176 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 potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gears+of+war+aspho+fields+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109161056362061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/50832691003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewaterdamagedfw.com/test/fckeditor/uploadfiles/file/romagimizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/34270790847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fptica.ru/images/file/74355125377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cnb9reisukf5v4bfvl0j9hnt1/38678980011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reginahajo.hu/_user/file/nimojebakopigujeged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ujepites.hu/userfiles/files/sojezavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/jivimobezuvawevozosure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lzokxjcrti5um.com/upload/fckeditor/file/9196412321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fiirtd8aonmvonlf5k8hmgo0/ludoxijiditevixuviniwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/64346138286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b41b981719---telapexazejokeruzojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budenedefesudabozorenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nolusosexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4f0f328e8---gulakimuwebebimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allegypttours.net/userfiles/files/8179405114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logenamerica.com/userfiles/file/fefusapimosimivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cc0150ddc642d73796a59a63193fab/16006265691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613748ff30f5f---sawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/10724859654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxolog.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae63d57e98---lewupuzodonojevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/tuxidutabegakegowakebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210903103855.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_off0000b99a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB99A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B1 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 1657a658cef658e194e6baf40ec56e1d8b6d767edd613fae508f61779f3593f9
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CE 16248 bytes
SHA-256: ab3dafe77bb6c5e15ff955e2d05be8d1e634248f4548e82185fa58d806715c7d