Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87180a31e878ff35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 07:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 707d00b761f5a4be1d82accc7abfdb7f SHA-1: 7848a873d5fb0c27cf01dc6e5dcdc819b9ef2af9 SHA-256: 87180a31e878ff35738513b513c7bb8a6aed4054390b0f94548c735508a274c4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a second-stage payload via the embedded links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81136021741.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e89a9c2f2---xugelowopadotimagaxifigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512162e58aeabb0cfc2323ab14b5dff8/begununokukizitofupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c3440876---vowebimuvozeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68604791678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c4dba941c---gomumimusetinewododunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/27261094495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afab4acc03---jiwojajisipavivodiraruzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/93481915376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ccebefccb86139cd85936bfeb0ef1c7/kigufipazokural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/gabana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088889e633a1---lilarugude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bdf9fc13a632bd87da2199489a1b62b/vizipufepiboresenoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/93022072100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce66e0f818---gijapopebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2jh1ucb9e78rh1f764madf44r/51681699185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/zawoparaziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/75237490807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/77876828929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/91762971793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a379470203---12834815541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu1sdn7a3ak30m6o0i9bsac1g5/vedolumegotaxitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=10th+new+tamil+book+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_off0000e84f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10061 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 338bed1f551fc4e8701e451207c9a14ab73d435777b599489166ff391c001f03
font_02_sfnt_off00012d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D46 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 540094db4cb7decd30a9ff6a5d769aed87d43e38fc68adb4d6900f56221849aa