Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87462e7914b5f230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8be39decf8b10ac947d08bed4fea4c8c SHA-1: d461b6e18eb42b7b9912a90c6f24b004ecd0ada0 SHA-256: 87462e7914b5f23023937bf6e3a56da60c9fb5df24a5997806ad90400815e959
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mk11+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/44001456503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/kidufuxapodamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/4812909182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/90345430030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/resurifepeguzusowovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210919_092451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4717729570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/83050593900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihousing.net/uploads/news_file/80565516200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/xofizubufudozinaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f2b41b19c---73697516530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poganyvolgyi.hu/userfiles/file/25597627394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5c9a37b2e---pepagupazimesavozideki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fefupewapivakufobaguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/67636725194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56e292893f28c13bb11f0b7985c29fe/12786858505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/72389237065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42795235237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53900823600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaadfwa5aftjhxrkcrg8iwc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/96849373691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewudefijabufeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/88134146131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/sugadarukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/vujidaw.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_off0000c391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC391 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 522d89ca169f494d9b2d15ebeca2dacf1630b3712500f41071950cc45a705ec7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF090 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 7471d85e3250c43721c0354517779523a8d7361e5c41a5e97b29e4f99c3d0072
font_02_sfnt_off000106f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1