Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87532d4805d2d7e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:36:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 483495e9a3e7a500f4ae556823ccc0b0 SHA-1: be0007c22f0432feae45a737914f2b615085192c SHA-256: 87532d4805d2d7e980c09c294304d83b72114da861b872e914699ffcea37c854
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with specific heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The presence of multiple unknown URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further stages. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/22688713526.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/wufawirutazeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64648902104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wyadonline.com/userfiles/file/roxudurevumusigimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/5207684740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/lokuvatepopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixpaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92471190392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/29820273913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selmanoglusigorta.com/userfiles/file/palizaruxipewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/19222561913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/zugamekuliwopisatifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ad0aac831c14cf959064d884a803e6/jotonujididet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/84025048467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwangtosidae.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/94847871371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/rupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/19517346763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/16076473109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/45938025158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmke.cz/pictures/files/juwamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/13934926928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143a1cd4ee5a---26827259856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/56320372002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahldk4nfgrmo995poof67g36p7/52891165251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesovisoputetajokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranfeng.com/userfiles/file/2021-9///2021913857227777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=train+sim+download+apkPDF 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_off0000d63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 636d0974d96baecbdbb0bd8c57399904b311a3380ec9b84f94e024f6b364a4fe
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8A 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 8c6567e99874a805f32ba8643261650217a014904d199162d5ff5eebd29a6bae