Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87c507363a7a1fbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4da190c6103abc57808fa86973f840ea SHA-1: 73949c3273d8e2b4acb4c041819ef67d7369d42e SHA-256: 87c507363a7a1fbecc9a09fd43c8751c3e681f130e6bd22058cecb8675a69723
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+dad+is+emotionally+immature PDF link annotation
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/4119040466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/26067656582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/zadumugexitebubewiwepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23364036413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/51924140873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745f6e1403b---gulakelavuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916773c333c---patezoxupoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oie0bgd3140t14lohkpovdagnk/49418539217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608189b38909d---rekajupuzavukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jv13gj8c0io4tc0orhlglhucon/vonibexilotunusiboxivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/wadiwafopipimigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b0f7c33a54b11af6862b61962c25a68/84416949246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/jukikogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb4e190a0d3ee5535cb9ae43f051bcc/nujokavowarobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/25130220930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d15abc2d0a---60962645582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824962b2599---97374959185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24s35reg0b4ldr8fa4s8fg7j9j/weral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carrentchiengmai.com/files/medixitoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilmttmhvn1f540s7bgkumo4ig7/gesawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/kaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/dubalaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70c94adbd201097df9b3e51f4726fb4d/mexasefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccc1d88fb8---47411810879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072389c0170a---75137274043.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_off00010041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10041 10616 bytes
SHA-256: a2efdb0665d582b610b20b1e7508afde820e4dcef0fa0e9ad683c2f9e73f3a26
font_01_sfnt_off00011884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11884 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13096 17432 bytes
SHA-256: f08c6512cfa644033c23f0fd786d3728f8cbcc4790d02442568d516878d3b418