Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87415dd592f9ba69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:06:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5a240b6fbc6a3006b8ad51a41e8d146c SHA-1: c99b770d8c269e071854a177cff59c0685c65d43 SHA-256: 87415dd592f9ba690d693b8d6d10a7831a6c7bd5951ed0e34196cfb6275e6e9d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple websites, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further content. ClamAV detection confirms this file is malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c142488ad0caba66abb6137a4ec8c5a/99793180502.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/36749072262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/dodadufonide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/11245547568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff1c4c83fdee327c3f259d9d35288868/morunapumawuwaviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/63188920458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/4412283061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81daa2aa831e7857bc5cd4b87e39c95c/55859798931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/63091276477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/uruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/wutimijedeporojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exito-opakowania.pl/userfiles/file/dekunifanafuvajixekogiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/19273774242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210804005115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/12916904474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d4835e5ce---14419389166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46d3724e2eb8bb6fcc1696d5f7159c30/44576957560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/79508849329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/96101998989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suacona.com/clients/16856/File/nutozadupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/nudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf339dc5dd2---36174644381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a80c9740821f55b54130cceb84eaa4/xufafusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/37603236779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/42904491528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=physics+galaxy+mechanics+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_off0000cacd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACD 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 327908a8c8238fecd4297373472dda4b4ff61681a2ee078737084ecf79a85ba3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF6 20108 bytes
SHA-256: 5b65b9041c27e380d97df4dc4f99f6cd5ea35593395ffcfcb2e402d5842fffa2