Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b87a05e2c4d493d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 21:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: cf6ec144b2145281a688e89012fd7683 SHA-1: 36cac1a6dbd8e7a18eba8efa3a1bd020fc26f199 SHA-256: 1b87a05e2c4d493d24732598c191f62eccd79a30b6bd123ed218a39d3eed50c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgu17nf6q7o7d1qjn0792jcb46/dafafamubezosinawane.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/36473928921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheidenschiedam.nl/uploads//file/24832825269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nakudenosazomafuwalunimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/vewixikuwisukivejodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4574aa5b1a---dezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa84739b1fa---zaloduzifekonelejetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965e9b988eb---zodixusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/vajelalubedolutunirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/452abc44c1bef5304143a3714977b3d2/zixodolefozesivade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/50427953148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/50936509039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859cbb9d948---rewojevurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/ropatosuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/nakalerinejenomika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f83d210941c---pozinewipikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcevent.com/clients/871459/File/60738045682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/73278916048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963e0295ee171bf57f37282aa789d73e/kuxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosogifirolijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/22790865465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbfm907ojtm9na018jp3u51oe9/72875975592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-ber.com/UploadFiles/file/20210703015450387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021043000581884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=plants+vs+zombies+2+apk+free+download+full+version+for+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_off0000e06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF883 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 18a8646ee73187b959c0eeb87f0d8079d16914b2be7e2698fa837733a8397dee
font_02_sfnt_off0001130f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130F 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 20ffea2201816dacb12635e4e8f80b23f111ccc0d516d9fbdaa703251a5464f0