Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87a22a2a0b6659cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 02:45:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0df0b412d39b0fd4f4a147eb8dd2d668 SHA-1: 7ebd062a87c872127f3c1bf3c2a1caac07ad6d0f SHA-256: 87a22a2a0b6659cfccf9cd6f4ee3f602358413fd676ffbcde4d8a0f90224b076
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm rule strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/4183009809.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076205acb34a---tononum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0995016650---46134585295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac59bc9821---13950141196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/kabepoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/doguvixifezife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/lukarogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2596b16179---45141028217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873e51e2b21---roxiwopupopituge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd990348902ade41d75ed7c95200e63/82114097977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/kozotoweseletaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp//files/levidotudutorojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/67585249788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed13ae968e5f14b1114cfd546c144d9d/riguzagereposojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7cbb8d11464f29f2309693b7a6f7ae6/68424179952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/vodumododex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents//files/68863808597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32032752542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770f8956ed8---69596584200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b750046493---pitofenaxasatuxixepovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3a63f87b5e71919ea3739a079dd903/dutulugeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/zoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bumabafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qjihal6lrlvfbhm58omv1m151/12225803650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/mitajojidotufobuxujiwevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221tc36opq6ba0r45cq9qgenho/befujivivepelubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+sponge+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000efa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA5 16668 bytes
SHA-256: dc6bff7f76be7c4f5cbaeea3a4ba87c2307f20431c7aa110ab4601f8581301f3
font_01_sfnt_off00011b0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13323 10852 bytes
SHA-256: ca00ab0e063fed6c84f54741a00c840575b2446cc2d93b360585a2e27343045b