Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d87b9de0f124c50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 189d8c41e954027741f709b7ba76f9f6 SHA-1: a8ab3f9bbae1e4b51e6703f5feb26c5da6a59883 SHA-256: 6d87b9de0f124c50825c5d16993fc7747f983bf7f45ec737f98bc87dfed126fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or phishing for credentials. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

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://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajemafifojepegosebewesow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fb406a99a---wikotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/larow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/fusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/boguxagitelomewaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/796938537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bbb6bd8203---temiminufiwujuwubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b45482babf2070e89148da80998adf6e/66484706657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608002be6d00c---3495032664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871fd65d1da---wujoninezajugazetesirimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021060304520573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760a6daeb9f---dapowaxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oa7sf3mvtssf6iigotrhilkfi/35280498400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608803da9ca95---dakufarejufevigupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23d745260a---rewibemowanuradovukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b3100c98f---danakesifojerenene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/rebiwafanupumibunipivuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/mafofoxabodolojikixasiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/mudiwirapagudogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083175b15af1---14940836269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5c190833d---91115543303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/84439086715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=capitalism+and+freedom+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e439.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE439 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4B 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 859c8a3f6f99912d0cc107a053eb9fb9edf410213b6f6e64eb1f07469ebda568
font_02_sfnt_off0001293e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293E 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 98bf83bb863d7a03dbdabc69a6173f846721d32906873ce00c79e9eace36b77c