Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87a27f310a02c6c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cc215daa8b071d52e28fe07c1c24e738 SHA-1: b4629339a106277a02e433177d964ff69a90866c SHA-256: 87a27f310a02c6c1863a1332b6b7d2cfadd636348bceb84f9bf368c49955f5ee
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites or download further payloads. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm designed to host malicious files on compromised or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/13265676042.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a1dfc8cd3---73635298547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/rezagigatobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/jobugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/babobemakoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koratitikunegowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pantonerestauri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninosazunibawidudumefole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/34712006980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b78e3e6b5---mubipoparum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd7b8s8uibhmqm57n66uvb5hib/1483331614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atta18nc0v1m603l4i3qar3rkh/vufifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbf9e35a66---vuruxifuvapitemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607732de4b2ba---bejewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/15651071682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/94034944188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_0FD3F577A6603AFF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2957cc215730de8cf4e36e1c88f7e5f/67020397633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/46890031251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ce5e60526cbd19daf8fde4de89d4936/barixorerosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f6718525a849935e283e14b316fc7f/59403740255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interfacetravels.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10545058471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/puwenazeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f80122732---40331227113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=historiography+of+south+africa+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_off0000d99f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99F 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 7388f10ba89e9867da2b8b2fea4acfe87c60cb4cd8730b878c69e75b5499d0b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF285 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 548f9426733932f7cf710fd4580ffcf8864fba337a2a46a393671a5084d4f522
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1