Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87d78c3f8dab20bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:14:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 14ce5a2b807cf0eb60002e6bbac37ca4 SHA-1: 417efbb7a6b2b174539d957fa62ed9e5ca6d76a2 SHA-256: 87d78c3f8dab20bbe1a44f39bdbc8130015795bbf6d344fabcbf6b82010421e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links are likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84e0ef6bcb6b9702598b0d1f559549e8/mowexitavodusixupupuxel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811604ac198---67141063942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/dubipewarasubidifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b4d9dcaba---moboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/11341014592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/38963458898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/44830115609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c48cd52fe---pudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0c9ca8e3c8---6256491385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903d9b4280c---78246465468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5pu6tmeg7i8kqj9sg63afpg5f/25146395343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb902e5a0f---82759922588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/jejupebileje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1dod42p5u4d1cane54kb2e140/ronemudawuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/firusifapuvakevisobadore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/xizetikikukedabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/35790811457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/sosubijosisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15c2506356---pulutegibumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80722214998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/68412530914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/1535691115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/vixuxafukewagenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbk0bcbvmphv50l3hadaljvtl8/jezobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=bpa+and+bpsPDF 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_off0000eb7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7E 9988 bytes
SHA-256: 9bd97f553321d26c6825b1b379f5d2bfafe2fc721385552b61119b965be48a89
font_01_sfnt_off00010170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10170 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 85f5698f09572d3a55cc6cd88e4b47147e901680e3b755290b2628cddf674414
font_02_sfnt_off00013102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13102 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1