Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87b5a7b091bf1521…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:21:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: bafbd29bc386b1a61cf36a6fcb56a8d6 SHA-1: 91dfa02ff0848af5a2b240a568883ae3be17d5dd SHA-256: 87b5a7b091bf15217a71380c0e72c6d9ef4136c63907f9cace0f4af103391bea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=questions+and+answers+on+human+anatomy+and+physiology PDF link annotation
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///wipiwomufotezotuguwimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/lowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/gomulevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/454128177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/kusefemosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/41572773777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607380470aa46---70192298387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dukojizolesutaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/zizijufaloxivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/susokugimojuzexowejegoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dovezilajagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861674d0563215e2612b95068c026d60/18056792856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ffd8e1e7f2f070ba6c62021df9d961/56296639977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/81932602350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattuxaydunghl.com/userfiles/file/21057841328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riribonukalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d6ff624bd---89815134687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbd14ea175e963f0f5451598459f6dd/48262123487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/55557222920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/45005995572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/80130586382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4568d31e95aea04d635c8a487fc9dc3e/2917358876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b504c2f2b2---gabigazomosuzutafubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767b84352cc---47732457597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/81744536599.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_off0000cee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE0 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 8a41dc43bce7f3b3ea150ab391d0d367cb4a81ec7fec9249b07de7af846cae7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DF 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 93f31094ee8cdbed8aca6a6248cfbc8442ca3c9f6f8a562b90baff5656c39bbd
font_02_sfnt_off00011502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11502 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1