Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87c37c1cc433cd67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6a3aae9ff12c4fe3c5a6377a8279982d SHA-1: de0224474a65412cdc71c0cfcc2abbb2ebea7256 SHA-256: 87c37c1cc433cd67cc15305ed33abc755a84fce643b657041d14e5b5f2438a4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to various websites, some of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads. The primary lure appears to be a link related to downloading 'Harry Potter 2 book', which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://beruanglucu.com/contents/files/97407352194.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/8243411227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96562457644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/58506351181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30761908913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltingacadamy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/saruderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavuwirezifinuwoxugato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olamare.com/img/uploaded/file/gulemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/gimedarano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45446376170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/waxemeruxexujuvinilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casartigianiudine.busletter.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32098911745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/99379569960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/xiwoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/11916802521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6jfl2egtgsjfd7g8ospiol4g0/pinavavonirerumanapekidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/55759032558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclelandgroup.com/img/upload/file/54560041082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/70040785927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyuco.com/uploadfile/files/20210913_225107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613edf0fe65d5---38717294831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc32f8b499c4897c59ad29cbab3b692b/fokaduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+2+book+downloadPDF 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_off0000d7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCB 17064 bytes
SHA-256: baa0116b625321717ca6014c838650de4c227f206e2374268c1e14fc589f58b3
font_02_sfnt_off00011c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C05 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 11aa1c25b47e2fd795a322faf7f325ac23c5d95cee33ec7bfeb8fbe2480436fe