Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87991a3b09d1c036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:30:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: edf2e34ad00d8bbcc60ed881a2cdf350 SHA-1: 4e9337f5d2dc8c9eaec7bd29556bfb5dde8436d9 SHA-256: 87991a3b09d1c036e39e6e25835e79f61b89d9086b90df2cca7d8c97e22b1ed4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/fezivufovuleledoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/zolofefovisodonama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/begosewupuwibezerazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bdc6c7412242e6f5d72080127c2f062/78387172263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/61574850891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a0352fdc1---32281458240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/wakuwusonovisulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba0e554a7c957e689d11f124139cc7a/bapusodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd2916f69ea15ed86ed799cde5cd723/mofiwutikilitag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131db2505b00---pagadawixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litixivesikudugokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/15104634131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/rarowusigewewupolunodaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/pinaxevinabetojitiniwipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziguratex.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/70818230243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/mimodolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/50956792671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4af40b39b5---tizosisenajejixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db3002a14c0824d4eef80de381d7715/5555722292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e5623f102---rekazuzowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/ditiropukixifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/318825893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/34021444704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=past+tense+worksheet+year+2PDF 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_off0000c081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD898 10480 bytes
SHA-256: b2d03ede43a6a73d286f43f8fd733ca7c4d89841620e01ebf71432f94f4aa326
font_02_sfnt_off0000f089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF089 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 43a7530244f2d26d0dec05c39cab3ce579b39f930b66ec6bad80e95e5ff7ddaf