Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87378e0fb38df42b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:49:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b372df1a5e0816de664f10be4c1abc11 SHA-1: 2aeb888f5be50dd0454106a37dd27b077def042c SHA-256: 87378e0fb38df42bd3ef0aa99938a555ba3727ecc9398468ed9e2f8043ca1ce3
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 indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://zubrcup.by/files/files/mimudopakupezem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/37354113224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/36121046823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/zoselekogino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/wedepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecb21b5b61---64715662382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901083037731431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798387ee3bc---livum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813c38867b9---pepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/munowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79979408707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/37272962075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odpah1gki620192837earkipc2/wivedikugiruwazogonebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a56083a00638b1045f3ca937880d19/lonezosaduvegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610480232ea7d---97313873812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ek6af82hbknm88d1nknqqel2/7347549313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huichem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojexafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/16437948158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18151679081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210901143205402626cvfu586r0d7z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=excel+2016+formulas+wiley+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_off0000d8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C9 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 5119f4fc08db1cf053db8e11a9e43391977a83ff14b9525c9644899174f9488c
font_02_sfnt_off00011e38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E38 11424 bytes
SHA-256: e98dbaba5224fb362d82b7f8201a17a2334e105f1c3ad79e365cc099b363e9b9