Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87af40c8503a5c10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 06:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5d348eb415e776f9a1ec5faed7c29995 SHA-1: fd16d2df7360b0b40d670e330274e1f568b8b6dd SHA-256: 87af40c8503a5c1098142250584fbb1c1a88bc7d6ebbbf14e2d9d419a5c7b9d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of 'utm_term=budgetary+quote+format' in one URL suggests a lure to trick users into clicking. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be3b790ffff2792d23445ced2766f121/xosuruxinalidivareroba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d81c4bd79---87599729791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rotudavid.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98025581535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/pofesufaritumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabitoridudegoposijipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8bd91ecf65---deravitugemazaxabedoveres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/72274661481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopewegeleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/furategigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe6166743b---15511575519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub5rittid3ek0s77of0bjkpisn/visun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6037b8ba3fa27e2832b31f68688df98a/25364533887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulsaperstein.com/userfiles/files/nibabepaziwekojezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubesuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2385917121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/40831530591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/84055041893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/zigemitazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/7579190474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=budgetary+quote+formatPDF 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_off0000d748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD748 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 832b279f33becf6f74d68092839dab9d5e883c5003ac30bc8e106c116acc2ed5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10781 16108 bytes
SHA-256: f6eb69cb7c106cc017f119f075aa3c4445fb8d53ff1ba82e1fe25c7d346e317f