Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87bfda0b7f6548d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 00:26:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f07d84170519f5bf1216da559532a60a SHA-1: b97182cad0be29d69721a5ac9161e1525161edce SHA-256: 87bfda0b7f6548d6e7b8f38c72b2af1027d52940772670ba07d3bb44f56c520d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maxed+out+documentary+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/76161190169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lijmq4bf5nho7hnlau0i5bub25/68658668044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/88937891459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-13/20210713194237265918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/midunegisevemiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/xosokunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfc4a3e3fd122696948d6de35bcd7ec9/51643934645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607715b301576---98918841924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/47912203872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded6907ecffdb9a81846e9b5429738f6/nejerupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083817783210---riganedafajifovapudined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabibuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/83558989207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8266866029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed61848096---tufipaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912fbaa0fd6---8181479544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78d5c3f632---645318607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/15657229476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifixedawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8235640740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabin4kids.org/clients/0/05/050cd0fff5f75fdfd14851583cc0de74/File/39900898106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b2a3121e6e22756276bd98c4588e9f0/95572988393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7368iahbjsrdrp2e7f9d3ltotm/46450373114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6471d2df80---57738061280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1410de64ba---sazuko.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_off0000c83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83B 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc2c00e4b6cedfde555be6d5d85f0c070e3bfb3c53ba44d2eb1ba8f6e982823
font_01_sfnt_off0000f383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF383 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9A 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 13b3937abf6b7ff1f7534e743fcad882c038f8f95d61678ad1797d0d59a7d133