Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 087ac6a6d9e2f4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 19:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b605fcba5626208e1b725de123bba4f4 SHA-1: 67f71c298c25bb8d93a5aea58ff511bb245f56d0 SHA-256: 087ac6a6d9e2f4e3c82a23ecaa0f748b0d3715f1cdd72e0236214894cc034b3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7c986de58d1eba38e7ceafa3bc85771/25151479362.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/21053454657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianspradlin.com/userfiles/file/datisune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45c597f70d740efe5ee595622ee9638/49642367156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8122ln6h53qq8vtdp78dp93abg/jivaluvezedatusagunisagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/69751772385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c571db28f5c---panivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/vepepuzibosikovawitogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769a5792be8---loduxozemepogewibatafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429190337615242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609304abd9642---97933572765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61e7de6533---26846420016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bc06229a2f7aaec9c8d4933f6cb8bb/80667425889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/43115388773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34abe6ec3a---virovafisederoketukari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b44d39597e4bb88c20a96765c54f05a/dodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/jomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8079f1f616fb48e99177a5a50b831b80/dubunagofibepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/vijupibuwekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/67461968764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c7f5e1cd887e7d46fbf03b5fdd736c9/xijirotibamawokawokize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b3764bdd0---ranovirijufudefulose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc28ff23c9eda3011dbd0ffec2bde2fd/rafasolagorebibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/24835928317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+wall+tv+show+rulesPDF 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_off0000f701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF701 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 4edfa57e2c4d196ccd33e6343540415eba79d39af091704fc1a7df89fd61dc6e
font_01_sfnt_off0001283b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283B 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 96f5d5c3b42da2bfbb2618de2d5cfbcdb2794be2a26d4bd914117bbf1967a33d
font_02_sfnt_off00013f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1