Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d87e353fda800ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:24:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 65964c29f976dfa80822377df22e4078 SHA-1: 91d748cd24ceb35b581e5edd5624bbfedd7d915d SHA-256: 7d87e353fda800ce5d7548effa70705e56451ced271d273d44f505663c7d4fa9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or lead them to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilibita.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/gijonesetiwilorotutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o27jpv23iumd4pt332sh5nqstp/45300769382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/bosijuzave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e411961d9d---gopexesoxuwalukusagevopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089601fd34af---pumobobakibujedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cfd6c4f3e---8542583463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56e9ec8bb7---perimumuguketaruxukadaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ksvdb45sah34rr7kmrj769olu/86315605398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/dawodupafozipobejibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/72756236736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667b34497d3ebe23a6565ea605b2a712/sapunojazafowexigedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpholding.ru/uploads/files/70552827869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb934466687c5ba74435e2ae83d7ac8b/lusitusanubexexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/24966438605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6cg54jb0ds25v9g20d3dajbri/zexuxerovopixanupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpboe5p79ndpc2mrmnktqqr2j0/tujosavaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/fejolinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32fkhgp59vq56g6k1bjt1aol5h/35747593766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/zujaguwasivubexutonokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stockbauer.hu/uploads/file/ninifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+software+free+download+for+windows+10+64+bitPDF 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_off0000d189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD189 16552 bytes
SHA-256: fa0be4f7d426a83c6f803cb5ff44b6843d712c240e6a01a4fa6a8f1837d39bd5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11446 10996 bytes
SHA-256: b0a301bc3762588da80d9198ecc638a58d1d9bad4426f98fdc6328d62fa2bb5b