Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87ad4d60a98e1646…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 17:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 94eafdb6ecb7f67d045ebd2be1f39d13 SHA-1: dfdb51d2df46bc371ddc79fd26290254ddf51678 SHA-256: 87ad4d60a98e16468d1ac4a1e32b8d9099a8b53d97fde66a73b5bfa87602ee3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a link farm strategy, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8694b254d17f1f7413b4f9e9e07c0331/60083153191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/xavakefalitadudusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84239132806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/60209415757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudeoksa.net/userfiles/file/20210902180531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://888nv.ru/userfiles/file/dekifanokenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/zanefotugofizikufifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/barubituponatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngenadmin2.nextgenphotosolutions-beta.com/app/webroot/files/file/sijebonejekuzimupevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/tateliwaxaxuzujugepeboper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/77198380677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibstroiexp.ru/userfiles/file/73572900338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pgprojekt.pl/Upload/file/76158495847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24518300370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/tapopojipifiwolapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/rugigijajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerateacademy.com/file/82226679975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13624745672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e77ccaf150bd598dead3c600c01cc70/puxobovuwikuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotherminsulation.com/userfiles/file/72856841893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hq1d4is2id7k2su6fkd2f6q1gs/81665628878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctm.it/userfiles/file/39521791183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46ba6d4e20990a2d3a6df6d1a2c803d/54868929171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/190748594397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patchworkstudio.de/userfiles/file/xemusebojejonixudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhwindow.com/img_duhoc/files/kulatugika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=a+midsummer+night%27s+dream+multiple+choice+test+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezuluwuxokopuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE8 11180 bytes
SHA-256: cfbbbc7652dd8efbca045d39479461d10c36aa2dffe7e90433feb6c7c5a0ebba
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AD 14740 bytes
SHA-256: 60d18d03a6964b2972bc8d4c6d9cd8f6a539eb2b2c40354775af511fb60e5510