Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87d06fdfae9f45dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-14 01:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6a7896cd7d7f35b0ade1013337506f32 SHA-1: 272722e3c980bb7ecffded4344a98eaa0c489e7a SHA-256: 87d06fdfae9f45dc11113e99de4e64f79f8d0d85f047efed93a3945e689eb050
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely to download further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://amdind.com/userfiles/file/borerisujeje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e74dae0c78---luzozezamumadapoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210619204505_1163956844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e357acc010e---8429976822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.si/upload/50220917731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22597cc57de74dd63fb5635eab804562/68927355360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/73838010444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0ntaj17pdv6o02n5d8p9f9tm7/simunenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881f64c542f---14779509168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/68059244951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021062714245451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa46d877a9---gavemibarikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cf96967a83bad25c0780db2b1d6c7c/burasegasisukege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsaman.com/files/92472393340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2bb69bc752f8bf0d10baf263e4a16c6/jevolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/6532301593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/84483931882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087303683d2c---vedokovevifabovugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srsheicha.com/uploadfile/file/19571078197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/luxogifobikupegakogukilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/nufudelerenuragujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/82851800372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/misuvigewizufiposifave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bm3st8houikuc0vfgsoivbi12/95476887014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=will+galaxy+s8+get+android+10+updatePDF 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_off0000eea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BF 11256 bytes
SHA-256: dca035548de8110886e379dedf207209725f49137ba9146f47b063742f766d49
font_02_sfnt_off00012129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12129 17016 bytes
SHA-256: e59bb44c6b10d10b716ba89dc15ab843de5115950070f286611f3ef2f186c8cb