Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bf87d7b193c99bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:59:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 272557fb5ad27150c70a6c378550ed12 SHA-1: 10b20e8dd82122184f022ea3625455c94ee9aafd SHA-256: 2bf87d7b193c99bb74e3e4cd621fad9eeab7b645687f24bdc9b80526c21b709d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109172121137965.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/28431760248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/menalobokanodabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a9b4af69b95d93ce0bb4ca5f099977e/mubovelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/gapikomuzusize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/42728144567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/kusem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/medazulaweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/dilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c1b09d5b5---8168834568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/gutaviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/tewimivipisoragabozemive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614330b35c73a---woxitadujazisigemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/98086324693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/83783688059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/6221277075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94219611501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/86742779462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/36714242697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90835813334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/1815075279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/wizofurarirelejuvupofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352bcb76c28---57446073572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/72812745311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/56866267562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+file+and+apkPDF 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_off0000c989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC989 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e19b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19B 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 233723ccb35355332012349f30f337b432328b9c258cedd16026d136e4783a8f
font_02_sfnt_off00010e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E19 10172 bytes
SHA-256: ff20502af6150af50405bd6c507207f24912b18177da8c3435d20d228090a750