Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e86eff8be79f1e44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e36ab948ec6f90d7042b6ffda2c90f71 SHA-1: 69e8e2fcc92153b271e5421decc92dc5cafac759 SHA-256: e86eff8be79f1e4414b64bb56a57d656e4ede82250a4d92a49cca2052638d458
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/19256043787.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-habitant.com/images/blog/file/wupatuminolavuxolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/nalirulekibemeropisida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tirifuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclelandgroup.com/img/upload/file/4101983418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/kufijoxefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7006f412a00287598b5d19285d59337/rajanudugexexefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srsatta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusogizewipelorijudoxefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/gujiriveluxuxerata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e302dca33e---muzekozexutigamikefimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/91998374846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/87127389798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibowexizavakekukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polytex.de/sites/default/files/76105264426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/49270392245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55557921300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/66006814346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/26192498559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905193038960886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/79530168044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smv324d6213mj9rb3lcj0sjvk4/82684074064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89d0160acfa82aefb31ae6f0798cd50/lomijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/52962514391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133abfa55d68---50225533650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sky+go+download+androidPDF 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_off0000d984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD984 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f19b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19B 10392 bytes
SHA-256: bcb2e706be8743a038e4dbeca18e95d0111d92c5f0de9c36562fff80bef0f85a
font_02_sfnt_off0001090c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090C 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 550cff636fa3b4fc8f9ee32a48db8f2350758ef7740c19693bd7cabf0cd2d6e2