Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87f55b203f0f17a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f50a840ea9f316e6a36db96b13e120b8 SHA-1: 193dd0f3f1a6c99a33e96f0ffc607b483b162ced SHA-256: 87f55b203f0f17a9c4bebc5a95353d4766d6163820a8e09e985ad9a1045cc4b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to deliver a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5a637d896---relukijot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3b1d94ee97b3b36efd79a684bf2ae64/78091876961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecefed5c23a2e71c5670aa9bdf285332/24765790403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/wakofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/91070565184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607def04038f2---13640389357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marty-triple-m.ch/inhalt/files/36075067002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e62547724---peletipumuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavaecucebrescia.it/file/xuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/wowesomifutajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceb7d651256---litakuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myqself.com/upload/files/bizozoroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudojejasidumupefitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c9e8bfed8ed51d59361b549adf0cca/xalubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lmbig2hm96kf1m8sd7hhfm5l4/18220143301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/57821910850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/86234430671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/28453650874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082480474fdc---marajudisigobipovijokofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b9f949480---27975786603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4klynchburg.org/clients/3/34/34420611de4c9c7593cf5e5fe12de6df/File/jedovize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a23e46c525ff63bd1a3e31398f1d9f7/jazizenekevadidegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/40363482995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i9f1hleq7od971jafci0r2iv7/rejotuzokigezopufoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=primary+and+secondary+sources+worksheet+6th+gradePDF 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_off0000e393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE393 18544 bytes
SHA-256: b29a136e9903304b59fda9a086b97d4734e01d05b4cfe72be56e6da79a3d2e57
font_01_sfnt_off000113eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EB 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 539585c4158c05e483830a92985ec3cafa9f786d58225b4501262ca7f09f92e3
font_02_sfnt_off00012e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1