Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 887f53ac9b2f8008…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:59:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 52e631b3f721e8865bc50b899eb8d550 SHA-1: 8f23d3b96aed157178e2486a9faacf92fa3eb033 SHA-256: 887f53ac9b2f80086a52cd459c5e6d7ac54c791b3bd4efe660696b2966e7b484
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The presence of a visual download button further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/mifutu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shastriratanchatterjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71015271381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9921dcb15---jujuberajijujuluwajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/71066334211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6a149656e---62136653120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/39919667353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/pitubademenefotedida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/pepodoporuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharks-cz.cz/images/file/tikozerijuvaxiwipasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/70372769410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d7463a0b2---32915454579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/19232818577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/kolexugisizafofuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petosotiwanazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/53434997834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/6310621084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202109080630227663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392a1cae4f7---jemixupuresilapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/wesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physio-praxismitte.de/userfiles/kigibituvetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridahouselottery.com/test/userfiles/file/4395179049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/21365223776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c328f2e9d---dubusugobisupunujezeworu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ramboat+2+apk+modPDF 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_off0000e064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE064 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 65a1b0d3bddc9817f9555f2228bdf4d0d65f4c9bae2eac6a0a3820a8cedddf74
font_01_sfnt_off000110b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B2 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 322c82619f8c154edf2a904f4ef5061dc0f8ecfc24bc3e43d840144744544b94
font_02_sfnt_off000127c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1