Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87331f5b649c26aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 09:29:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 334cbdc7af286e16876114806f581d58 SHA-1: 7f0448b7d0ab3451ef3597efabc7afd199a4652e SHA-256: 87331f5b649c26aa94fe6c3f634542e800c88814b21b8ce0bc1fb1b74d0d440c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The presence of external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads indicates a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+book+thief+reading+comprehension+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e15bc430fb---96039297266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/42931321969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd600009640---52826708780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/vulopixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71213347413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/vasodufosufalejutogedofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b69b98ff9---tawekuwuzatakametem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/55483649652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e6d79637c---novevupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6dj96pvs9hiu4gar3uq7lreod/76851918975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e6286462d362e6d91c7ef800e3ee8c3/japonebiperonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/nutuwenevexerekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/serawiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5ccd936577---fokasenuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe544dccda---xutujajuvatojenamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/47118668396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/rufixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/63858725216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/xifakuwopitasirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/raredopikowosezunenujolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f857573372b---38089324912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcfee3eee88---jutenuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/19909876515.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_off0000f2b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B4 11464 bytes
SHA-256: d754e7e31cb1852ae4fb37267f14692c668218808fef0eed06f38feb8808eb0e
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE8 16924 bytes
SHA-256: ddcca16d313e002494bc9b85def805f75611281c92baf1fc61c0975ab10f5503
font_02_sfnt_off00013885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13885 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1