Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87ddaeb4e63466f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4f46f0a4ca6a70119ee33c5da015bd74 SHA-1: 0e52b91298dc8d22b750f13069ed9b90753413a8 SHA-256: 87ddaeb4e63466f29c4a82e09ee858e8b3d912d4614ff25386a3154a8572aa73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or serves as a lure. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This suggests a multi-stage attack designed to obscure the ultimate malicious payload and evade initial detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/61324251143.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f98198dce3ab61a2dbd023a70ee176/buwefiliduzuxejoruf.pdf
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/27758708690.pdf
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/32708195780.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98bb5dbfebb6e53d70f949c001b8e89/pugigewibuka.pdf
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/26663501871.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb88c93e8e---dizifetiwupokigimule.pdf
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf901148ba0fa29fe2678f29709895a2/wulojidaxidowubava.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7loj83npnu74uv66vbrq9607o/zobegopidim.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770182dbbdb---konokagagama.pdf
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/28051369618.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8b01e90b6---14018296192.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bttddsu5motnur2sjnrd8qoeeu/15697596494.pdf
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/povejajejizozujinu.pdf
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e951747528513c97d81630b69f4de20/57331597238.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d293dd15e1---35610922854.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9fcea66f4b80436c7512a052fa86359/68665372804.pdf
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/31374520992.pdf
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/13116024190.pdf
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/nuzekuzuto.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibltgirf4f95dgaqnurl3odl85/gukilevirebubufavijisaniw.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5dcf0e50fd---furovuzudo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=childrens+pub+quiz+questions+and+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3cb.bin
f9ac46fd684ca2ad138f696d9cd72b535c7ce3dfcec7ecc075ef635fb69702d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CB 11052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d15.bin
ce39430f25e6620b4acb5fb174f2329c23d6d7e24c474ed554d3c0991626be21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D15 17272 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a2c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A2C 16792 bytes