Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87175b6b03a0f66e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 34c96c1da3aba496402a8b16a7f02e8d SHA-1: d02d3706f66cc86bc6ac33ed8d2feff4f21ac6ca SHA-256: 87175b6b03a0f66eb907e7c3f721033bdb2a4e2feef396b72be2b455c6c90b80
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, directing users to download further PDF files. This is a common lure for password-protected archive delivery, intended to bypass gateway scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=femap+api+reference+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073feab59bb6---31425173767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/gufutavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/93170836346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f007aa4fb---mufowipumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.dk/operatori/userfiles/file/mapesusubijavimuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d364b6cea---63395646882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702947b595d---bimozeledomizipafigisipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l94o6444338ms42iqechl1qu3/6984529525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803edd0ee14---tabikesorimonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ecbe25da4---93882248791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msiutilities.net/documents/zopegosolatesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08054867eac83be60170fa8a430d2e18/40469556262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/40160071269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9ceb4e044---xujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/videmorafonifobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dcbe8d820---26235465330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgkipoch9hltmug2oqr2f2lq03/kiwurupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/28920027127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherishedmomentphotos.com/clients/8/84/84fe84b553acfcd191e166b7401b6f02/File/xuzotajowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safe-international.com/userfiles/file/24076140862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.eu/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///91675992704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e417b8ecc---regukeruvapado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/77550521471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ce2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE2A 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 56ab116e0ebeecb14467d33404541f5464cb08ae1ba6b03f519d8a7fb1be8e95
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2F 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 206df3414b1c3103b28d592d9458f77c7798d1a8661dbba334e8e891d640e741
font_02_sfnt_off0001135d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1