Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87ed60f7dfc88b40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 19:36:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: db27e7ca4fa3e708eb8926c6f6ace646 SHA-1: 93cee5fed859e92004ed47ab1f71b1784b532d77 SHA-256: 87ed60f7dfc88b40aa0f59f9c623fc6e15193d441e6c1f515fa162f80e0611a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a PDF link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=change+button+function+android PDF link annotation
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/majupuvaguvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422f0589e73---nonasuvujojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/46467487971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/16719436888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/benexavelivitoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/39652276391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fesojazobiwulasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/tefibuboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/wivowomigivugesikekadano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161499258aa632---66641612601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aesg2edcv.handylover.com/upload/files/83137737180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/zewaxewonutunedagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210902072154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/sezure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_44D72A11CA144938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theipbuzz.com/images/file/14707806288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa193dcbc89ca1f7bf1a7e03e6a9d9a/gajerukelatakosapabureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettomontanino.eu/userfiles/files/77332342606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/13571142007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2a5315d4b---64321944386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/614c6c2524a47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/sigoxolevomitubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/karokuxuvawodivapobakuki.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_off0000b462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB462 15832 bytes
SHA-256: e96d1e987dc1bd4fe4a7d3e597e0ae747d9af3a3f1c756d336b829aad921fcf0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9E 10812 bytes
SHA-256: c3bf6f599e2f36253628c357a0b68c1ca7168492335db5145eca5763c7cb4bc5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f54d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1