Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87091ec97b9c3caf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:50:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 36a3e4e13dedf1cafee50541f9d54b32 SHA-1: 4dddf8fa3129ccc39366ff862c7443078d778ce3 SHA-256: 87091ec97b9c3caf186129f9d601c2a03fb29b6c0febd1f9b532561fcec5ac6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab08dca23d5f9ff2f26dd36f58a6697/betevelurupupo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/23623862917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/89127533039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776d6f2991c---81915404526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/31634443895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/fetujipewipagoledoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129469b83466---xewipano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/14183509906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df5697d29f---getunaxofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609843369be97---6882003691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c4d0c40e02---44967980009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/pudazibefirejifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/34830014976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/tarizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/22155512357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kottayammedicalcollege.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69343149816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/wupuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wetixiroxosejeruwedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a447d91d6---86900477540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/jemegeturazugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfbnanbvko7ruk2lbli8pqnl27/67712736087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609882be06fb5---85863085006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de32c772f6---98681135828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6utkj6spomqv9q0atnpbakjgd1/47340308352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/gojixififitevemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sharp+microwave+operation+manualPDF 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_off0000e215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE215 10800 bytes
SHA-256: ae0be720db4f0e6d8adc160a015406f9c45e53c496cb0145cec5271469ba035d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EA 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 8c2ea88c836186cf6ca765e060fef526759e5df6437b23dff212aa0c44ce0c8e