Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87147bd79b8342d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c5c4598ddb4cade73c5f29dec9b03f71 SHA-1: 1af7437754611b6cf9abdfb5fc335d6f23065248 SHA-256: 87147bd79b8342d5efd672b01d29d78b848e1235f53d9dc35dff193794f6f779
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests the document's purpose is to lure users to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38040705617.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/26656728769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97792204236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ca85396e2c029b8ac630fbd978c84d/63149011995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce4b2b594f4---bujegikijifoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a633f1d6aff---35681462200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ba50e7166ae5d09690cfd3dbe35250/nisoxibowubanozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/bakuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38370268168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/nekojetejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/dorasugamanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51467944863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b90ca19cbe---zijifatepefoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7e792a391---mubosuxebusali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpcadonate.com/clients/4/48/4863a0bac697dd4b44f4a1b1fb44835f/File/dedubixepawalomofojopumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/lojurijemipupuwekeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811vb50ph0t0kts3ohd7av7pbq/wusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebdd33dabf7bb91cc0c27ecbbe1ee99f/vufarizeneloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/favatunonifunewigokaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/tudizeletavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/10185446227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d8ec4693992e2041d969afe69d36a4/renototor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac89c82aff---posedodafire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=peppa+pig+books+pdfPDF 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_off0000dcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB6 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 617e5ab8eb80e93d11c004c23adef1bb17dbe189e794b913d150daf49ccd1f20
font_01_sfnt_off0000f47f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47F 18496 bytes
SHA-256: 3588d626b368c5fa076bfa9f5ba71431caf5ede6c7ba09467e7b15aadf85c64b
font_02_sfnt_off0001249b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1