Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87ff948c860c80c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 09:03:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6d65626efa7bd823fbe2c3c5124546a9 SHA-1: 460ddc30a47249e7eabb2eb8baaf6e1d3bbfba3e SHA-256: 87ff948c860c80c2451eb59df4f34b8d787211a6f0daf83f1e291f6eba3ad70a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the phishing and malicious download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/20846237075.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/88551456943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f1c58624---15055903859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/wedolejolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76835226952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/bofarokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o1b30bo3k1n73b5g6a02q287j/suruxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/totukegefoserazoboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/44650731743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/xudifozemesozozesaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81310580075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0f405b90f---40149319925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85a47bbb2e---rigovujepozanuresazibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh9pmf8mncpdg6kdg4qk2p40g9/zidojomafexeluvowanomuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tpdjpep18dc2fvtq1hvh8mtt1/jekexiwesemavatali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d541227f4---94965079869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26078843126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/pikejivuxeligago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843aabfbf39aeaaa36c628d700d78ddd/mevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e59ae6b8f7---63931869077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/tagotuzikowiramen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7ddb0b195---pufukavebegufanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/vukevalobunekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mdcat+merit+list+2020+fataPDF 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_off0000ea6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6C 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b6c0577705d1cafe3fa27c10a23123484d744a4cdc527c1d2c85e60c962015c3
font_01_sfnt_off000102e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF3 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 984ae0ab6cb0b2bb5e257777ab50dec57fbece35280180ce9f6829a7387d6227