Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a87806b880d93db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0f2fca993e27ef1d56ba23b1f9375017 SHA-1: 20a09d3795465e56bf284817e6c25f0ace527313 SHA-256: 1a87806b880d93db25d9630ef0535053643339aecce20fc067d8c43aa49afcf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or redirection scheme. The file's purpose is to lure users to external sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/23080628007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36071d9678a0a5652907f2d95cec6614/weramaniwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16242337714254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2d18cc4ba41a984be34d7766ce5dd7c/mimekabewiredoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c434af4a2df---sevatuxevodanisivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/tejajenufevofisazinugidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/41743871156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/somatevuzujibowogufumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090760ed767b---8398540033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86055d18d6---nowotivovipuvupaturivewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/lutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/mufajusikepusopipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/ropenerawufosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0750afc6---62282183274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05121bb341c8aab9d1c6654691e23153/4826972643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28439614427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fb0f4e646---foranepajitanizudekoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53vvcoga2u7s9chqsq7sfaeid6/24693337696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06fda4a187379c5d0a1c5c6e4a305f7b/28639103310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607629dba813c---15633411085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/tujogawosuwudomubumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/61749398920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=letter+writing+in+marathi+to+friend+for+birthday+invitationPDF 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_off0000f190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF190 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 3afd37ee66adefbab963cdeb3b6f0920a8ea0654db87926a53215271e69d053f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AA 17016 bytes
SHA-256: ad35a3818628ec24f38625f6088a41bd0912e712cd268272cc866b6735954fed