Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87767d441aea4559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 03:09:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8466daddefb94bc4dcb286d44dbbbb7f SHA-1: 37ef6ff9fb36652b7cdc9c40f6d8e9bdb0c63a6d SHA-256: 87767d441aea4559cafb2df4ce9a1ba429b015dfdcad556f1ab501093c84472d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of link farms on compromised and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/kakupuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goldmenu.com/userfiles/file/wobofavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/84798536943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/zokejugarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designgaleria.hu/userfiles/file/86050538099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/41573578530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf47e4b36db19a64d55ecd276bffed7/vinoxaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138df6582a24---19098951115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/vugibodadolirimasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341d0be744f---savegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/9158002035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141199086be1---62387175101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/33024152475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/topativot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33655741401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvr62s2lt8cv3ia4fd6h8p2h67/kilemixidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonibozogagarijudegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/59266461656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412ccfd40eb---risutajuvimimobilomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/gizoxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e159e74b59---90360644520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/xonama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aiddhbkcq5bcaz.xn--p1ai/upload/files/1102156356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pickup+mod+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_off0000bf86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF86 20372 bytes
SHA-256: e3778ba8c22a0db8c59037f02525f5d3c0dc054f4187ee14d34c28afa12e0d77
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC2 10220 bytes
SHA-256: e55d7867fcd224f8ada26fa4d9e414b9ed5ad68d45a27778b60808c0e1cd7f1a