Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f863f5d835bf726f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-05 02:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: d27974ec6083b3485b5ca5eb7c44256d SHA-1: 3c42d950f7012f414728dcd756b43567f38f6642 SHA-256: f863f5d835bf726ff7d2855ecad1eb83d19933d883254ffa0f9ee41c4a1135a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates the primary attack vector is luring the user to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/55122312387.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/51605110314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa17b0559676e25c8070a86ea207445/58688271706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083246a5e952---tosote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608730494cd8c---rakonapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/rirobaguwewafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exito-opakowania.pl/userfiles/file/wutivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spark-care.com/userfiles/file/49371266403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21095861966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31184178173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6fabee085cf1656fa4c424853aa9fad/rovamajagexixamopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18d1072842---kifotukazixololegeduronud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14dcb10b857e73387288b573f3fbece/litakalore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e630c2d04eec7c5e80dd9535cac91acf/85915709603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ccffdcd6902783e2b9c0135e3fafc3/10094802299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8debd7326859afe5c1d72564b597cc57/32886650713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/61953791191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e28e88c449e---87384640864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dccf3ce64---fesesoreduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae178af753---72220846836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ec3023d2616dfc9b7ddec4c6703b3f/35984865382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608440230c9e2---56666736645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/42707550610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa861c8d740e12fc25af44a19ae6d73c/tititufovumivurupove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadetunufiludonanolaxafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/diriwopupidelowuxivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/wepejinivuvokidibapokuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=densidad+del+agua+a+20+grados+celsiusPDF 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_off0000e08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89E 18128 bytes
SHA-256: 5a550419370b8208737902143987f282f8bf6f80ccda18ab112ae21b2a488b32
font_02_sfnt_off0001269f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269F 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 81ce937ce76c56a4d59a3b81ad33fbe4c7549e2a0a16318b8c1fd213171192a3