Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87f753d505696026…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:34:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1f9483406a8df4a4438956b0e3d8d2fa SHA-1: 9a1116eb8199fb676dc7d1d5c7c56e315e97d81e SHA-256: 87f753d505696026d5806ff84355eac3fc81a8788856e35659307c0b6b1dff78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a vehicle for the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/93722086213.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cabin4kids.org/clients/0/05/050cd0fff5f75fdfd14851583cc0de74/File/filikibirovozufuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/76833386471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/23410091817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofox.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19808774617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithathoaphat11.com/upload/files/27903527413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/75484300478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6fk8of0ga1jt036jlormpf27s/figev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btrses3se39iar96k02jtkjj13/24895558604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moestuinwebshop.nl/userfiles/file/popunufuxufinupoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/jegoluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3cl15qij8gcse3k0ffsecma1/60519726599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/87757085947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982144120e6---notupizazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32i9dpdocu16jf0cf7rkhe7as9/keteroliruxiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e65ac02839a688d5bae0e1a69603444/nituwasojali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fujizafujilere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9d3ca6457---nedaleparogebupori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/94768581742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7f1165f02---radixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabb67ceecd---37244004708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/11860631631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/ninageduxiwovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwarelovuvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aru5dl2tu67olcb259p1kjiul5/tunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/65810355291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=principal+stress+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_off0000e25a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA71 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 227d274079ba031ed75766d6a9765ddc4237c0c2bfa4b4539fd19e5655fddae7
font_02_sfnt_off00011260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11260 17504 bytes
SHA-256: a1b761891958d15a089feeca485e5725108caf2ac4e14f3c0b88444882e1fc70