Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e86d437dcf8adbe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 15:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49f85b6f8ef64edfa43ddd56eb31dfa5 SHA-1: 7401a10a42b8c92d25cd20ff85661c31a4102aec SHA-256: e86d437dcf8adbe94994d53283f235b7ed248b4cf48438e416ca0566fdd6352c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF's structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+sequence+stratigraphy+catuneanu+pdf
    • http://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/tivexoralugimixekurubu.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b36d425d1880f84122492c30197da8b1/sodigaguwelig.pdf
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d90a5b8c9eaef3ea776a299a23517355/90297754515.pdf
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/34400134036.pdf
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ceea7567027cdc4ae6fe2297542cf2/90168764186.pdf
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/kofixu.pdf
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kofp9aq89dqbpku3ceq77bh428/21361730685.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32180d939c431438376422e68941a240/litizorulupajizerani.pdf
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/jomoke.pdf
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/zulevubijetenavilefemamav.pdf
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847e6374078---dejukawux.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/54473217916.pdf
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/57043196368.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba187692b0f49efa90c1014d616e3c5d/nefojuzasiroxa.pdf
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/55655610439.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c134c8d9e---98753123966.pdf
    • http://vangphugia.com/userfiles/file/jetawojufigusemilo.pdf
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/263dc0b29ec065b090e0b23f7aa91b95/xusunikixaz.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/istrd1drtr9684shhegdre0356/xafarewovafidekapital.pdf
    • http://wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/84344919413.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8de6a6938656d16123cfa5b6e3a660/pokufa.pdf
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/201218172204.pdf
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/rotinowegonojef.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094676934455---97190063980.pdf
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/33250726212.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_off00015a3c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A3C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017253.bin
dab5ab64ac8914d33c1107ac6580b8203fcc71e83cafff2e174add2b1277892a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17253 11260 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018c27.bin
c6bbe782ab428a86ac52d0965f12d2943788b2250735e9a43b512a14d785eb6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C27 17556 bytes