Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87f4dcdd016eaced…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-27 01:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c6c70ad5eacfd204d6a86e431de742e7 SHA-1: 688012d2356ecf78c3535b2b3accfbe5e8d714c8 SHA-256: 87f4dcdd016eacedd06f49bf155b07865cf10b25c1a8db817886bc08973e5a72
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm, directing users to compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/29986291178.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sieseam.org/userfiles/files/6421472313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyamtracparts.com/userfiles/file/7653931987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147799f55b87---95278857041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/2065805748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protezas.lt/i/File/59874815656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/49611890502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girlstown.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozepubudamojewaziporuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7foq0nd6lcc9gvnbaicb4ivsjk/jebituduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210915122446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokisuper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokeguvefatusolitezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/xasatozolikefonofotetaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b05b52ff3---19574927098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f9ca20dcf---44394823998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/tupirafijawikemomikoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614013af5edc8---mosodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/35979216000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903195701801264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97vlkdkphrbobl74njme7k1esj/49939878490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/14577869440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/wotekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetozekudubojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210903103514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=abc+practice+worksheets+pdfPDF 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_off0000b509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB509 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 0b22da0fd264b23bf699f22d9ef2e4f9dabf04f18d1d2c3a76e13a9b5329320c
font_01_sfnt_off0000df95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AC 10868 bytes
SHA-256: e86507c9f823c2236adf0df2c46332dc724681894dc6056d8466587b8ceb33c5