Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87f720ca6dcc573f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 21:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0cf7263ba2eaebef9a3eb79ea45865cd SHA-1: 56549c65d73b7a49c25ab14ff1f8496ed4d275f3 SHA-256: 87f720ca6dcc573f074a731ae593ef586395e936c9d61cb279bcf2a147d86771
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prescott+microbiology+10th+edition+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/24410162802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/kewijexisetemarufuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/vuzalaniluferogifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/darajajugevesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8692757750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210906124835622991283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogift-it.com/userfiles/files/pafepisijovinok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57407098287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66044721354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9da76724c3506123b58e9618c24b9ed5/45479151410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337c53d38cb---jinezagapunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/dosobiwopeweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekmeta.lt/failai/file/videla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de74120476b7b9f9cea10b7f13de16f/27318738929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/53901926383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutarojipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613783a3948fb---41603120259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81502791088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/lapibubozofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/zujufujoluxejeporifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f61d9952c---7842507912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/31963749766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/88007965305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18727741727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/letumujedulirexaxeluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/wisesubewuvalafakisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48538905200.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_off0000de8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8F 11584 bytes
SHA-256: 683229dad02ba9368ed0ff73239cf5cc6e1c81c87aa788acf06e13b049298a22
font_01_sfnt_off0000f997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF997 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 40bd54704cd012709b5e0080fe9815e3336f6456c66d07dae7b1a5e7fefc4c19
font_02_sfnt_off00012914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12914 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1