Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87501c5b66aff0f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 13738444e6e2af83da61b16225b0a3d1 SHA-1: d71a8e6f563c8ec564854c984a4a6b4a4e3e4aec SHA-256: 87501c5b66aff0f1da36a15990c853db0f859e15051b2539472cb20ac16e4011
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210707030518.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091779e3b24b---xaloloxinotipizig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609724167a06d---39892672975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6ec90936e---70576112371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/zanoroloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/21729186625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/fejujagawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3080235d76---49050375418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/20082830778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbd6380776f610e891f55668c2eeabc4/nofadegedusobozubukugiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea54abb6e820f9871d9c8e3d4389a60/gofiwelufizonatenenowixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/pagutivulaximisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/lufijoberenepagugefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0270a8112---6975668152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbbbqjon499fenu62o3hmmev3v/73603818767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d084ff3c5070716bbfc45f6e197f11ff/fajawovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efdad450c964234f25e88b46c1bbaa52/48263768368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/88177937689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/70986221918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/zifivotelopefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735fa0e1de6---kazigudibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/jezovibujebinusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/2546898794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mongolian+language+grammar+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_off0000d8f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F7 20900 bytes
SHA-256: 646010fa775a50102dd084fcc854939a335ff67677c9d781956035567d050550
font_01_sfnt_off00010feb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEB 10668 bytes
SHA-256: c5d8a984e7790a9f9714be04d2f96e59de002ed66f9e2d4b4ca7f7e9f6513e2c
font_02_sfnt_off00012816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12816 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1