Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87aaa48822b6836e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 16:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f6cda09c74bdcef5b0a0fa1cd99143d6 SHA-1: b06873c7b29958836c48916124cc514ea277a66f SHA-256: 87aaa48822b6836e6dd534d00f345bb331c82ab9d08731675996789040bc6274
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is designed to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of a download button lure further supports the phishing and malicious download intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc57b9161f9aa8d677283610ed8f77fa/nuzegesopovegidamona.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe976b82e2f5864f46c263f399fbf16c/waxozomemejaxuzebatuzuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2ebn4ie61ggfnaa62i6qkfc6n/33754502619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kb78fjt3rm9qb055oapar0ohm/lebuweritufudunebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5995e77c4530cf2d1330bb9998b88b07/papafoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/tatolizevunufedeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hefoc3vv1reqpe903h39su5rq1/74801378826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/633b2425a04f114b0ae4ce93b6567db8/wimesofiwapuwelofavago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okb7fkbr9831795o5oml1n1ibl/90252841569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/fewaruzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbf4038d44---15444265717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faea64d4dee3ee3f6bcf496f50d71bb6/61157602019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/kogiviwuvutolamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/85704322556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitaminyplus.eu/files/file/92063565673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/49332828126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993cb6c4485---gegozujofidisadawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/jowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/zunotumitaniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1813d28a7be363886b724f50da14872/bexafasiwekowerukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210430144611982192741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=design+of+steel+and+masonry+structures+question+papers+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_off0000dd5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5D 11324 bytes
SHA-256: a5f328ac8783c7d2a178694675b35b5fbaab40903d04e67f28f4c6b7c63156ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000f789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF789 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9B 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 1f5b52d6cb84ac63a4d7061c1d109ace555be8456bf32d9420f398ffa3706c84