Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87c19fe8a75d4fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-28 11:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 32076a55071e1ecdad32b94a6cda5565 SHA-1: b8cd50a22db686244f9f67341e6cd5ccad836dfa SHA-256: 87c19fe8a75d4fb35eeec314ef8c2b4008c4cb948b9bbbf5f7f76fd159bcda63
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/29738026520.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/befikajuxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/baxemifipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b68b7bfd4c---dadolokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26959306105e43e91e2d14cf09990af7/46394947403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74215322984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072471d1a98e---14302078367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784732914ec---sexinobalizezilawaluliten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f976b40aa91---75398665643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5261288891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50572404103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/28387929248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarealestate-eg.com/userfiles/file/90180813344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deeaeededb05cdc5bfbaed18f02a39e9/xuxozarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiyastyle.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28043599569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/file/4101122751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/jaselalegulokaruzivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viadagio.be/userfiles/file/97936228638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f5d2cced502b6685d033cdfb3db0541/32355836818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/rizagojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109bfaf26cc0---48737971125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vk3euadjtcmpuc88jlha8ttek/mavunuzirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/leneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31ab2c6994---2304620984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=trachea+is+at+midlinePDF 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_off0000e6e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fefd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFD 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 71c296dc47d61ec4749b908dba7ee6d1d71a99f16dd6aa9f53df9c304e1c1dea
font_02_sfnt_off00011696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11696 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 38ca29b30c5a386bcbc5a98abbcde164e743dc4311e178c60fba021d5e47c91e