Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 887e6509f429dd90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9e1c6d69c73ce72c0d32a4eb5312d624 SHA-1: 0783653d6eacc6743de56cdcaaf81d0b0de81d69 SHA-256: 887e6509f429dd90ba9ab038d73d631120cc157dc7767f9b1ac91243a357f12d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. Heuristics suggest it's a phishing or malware distribution lure, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The file's purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on these external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=design+of+steel+structure+book+pdf+download
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612937d5802d6---nofupiruzezutivuzemukar.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accfde8dc69---7913148934.pdf
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/jimufox.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b529ed9c2fa63490a561105c80bab0bf/38493156589.pdf
    • http://goldsunjsc.com/upload/files/19332612845.pdf
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103f9ea7eec0---99214629432.pdf
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranefiketagamaj.pdf
    • http://ebrinteractive.com/userfiles/file/54124706480.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607551a36e1e8---besisujuf.pdf
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993c989d2851f9fdc4b2a3dd2597cc71/24221307345.pdf
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/loxogexaturedibizesif.pdf
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/nokabovutokabivofemezima.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833314c4602---380542037.pdf
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/19257194308.pdf
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eeb6cba7985188ecbff5f06426ea947/55871944501.pdf
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/parotunadimulagonune.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d40fcabf2---9739862078.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/54934479017.pdf
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/luvitegusakodi.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608925f76f8be---22972594457.pdf
    • http://kd-council.com/upfile/files/58383413692.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6960d918236a4691d04a932907473ec6/19589671517.pdf
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a28665200cbe5f437ddef21d35fdcb/tevufonubolidu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000caa3.bin
69237bb52c418b51564868083c915cd52095f0379b0b6e3da21b004f7f1e35c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA3 16260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c86.bin
1ea5db557c0fb8fef8818cd9611ed16e1d2f2d789266c1f0f5afe418709723fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C86 11212 bytes