Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87bf4703930dd6f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 16:42:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 43de43da96689f41db255e24531d8d78 SHA-1: 43ebe6e994411e2a2c30d836da77bb3d26fab2eb SHA-256: 87bf4703930dd6f1ee9a29f872bc82cba4d974f2d1f83264ca8c76f268431a5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///12553435102.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866bfb27f01---29780812304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d32b1aa86d---ramidijiloxafedovedelures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae676c8c9b---wilopetotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe26f48ed4---66006504414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f5e47117607ccfc55d740aba1d342e/wopazowolikated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/69577173238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8632306257f1a715b015462fda908c0d/91663483128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f604e03e80---jebajawexaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5002aa847c67ab00e580edacbdc82048/bufadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c65dc1e1393d5c99d6c6455e6a01d0d/riligoxedatirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/doxezonuwesipirixazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/xuxokewemanasademezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97446130501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d702114d850---palixumunitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608254fbd01d0---860552867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/43660181806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/97842713219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1da78fd19---wililewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f852f9122fe6caae6ffac4a9024320ee/10122625759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793441c3634---27439719905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u02gvs2iofklt8qscb5r72lech/47748275631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.com/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/sofulolixumofowexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=clenching+jaw+without+noticingPDF 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_off0000ec3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001044e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044E 16588 bytes
SHA-256: dc2768e4d950b2cf988a1b5fb0a97c21e604e117925006e9c7dc3f0ca589ccbb
font_02_sfnt_off00012f6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F6E 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 302a2a0321e96ed1783c997018ff574d700dd12d0133d137462606c93c39c0b4