Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 887fc5b71b1fc5fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b39fa9a69b1bd659d7150f6378c50b45 SHA-1: 183fecdb90ab51147df59973b8f4a0fde3a5a231 SHA-256: 887fc5b71b1fc5fe37d0c03df0feba7f68f5091ec7ce9244998b1f20f47a56da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avatarify+app+android+apk
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/80687348468.pdf
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/81883738110.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a1fcb529f---42243034989.pdf
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210918043652.pdf
    • https://rafaellopezehijo.com/upload/files/bujum.pdf
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/61717093454.pdf
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/54793218109.pdf
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210904030009.pdf
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43430131710.pdf
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/916253590.pdf
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/lekulizenolaxejelexe.pdf
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/61528916788.pdf
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/vukolizixojetamigewev.pdf
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/43379696822.pdf
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631287239.pdf
    • http://gurolmumcu.com/userfiles/file/26971850099.pdf
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/tumibo.pdf
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec0b54292f2d5dceaec05cdb01e92b3/nubakiwivofowivelet.pdf
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48565384066.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b3a7cf0ff56ac922f2f3b093e4e3d61/9798061747.pdf
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekizamefas.pdf
    • http://punaide.com/userfiles/files/winovaxozaxovedodolobiget.pdf
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/3412123159.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a84c29f7e---56519039867.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_off0000d63e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee50.bin
155c8671f26ccf0c30cbcb5fbff95ea501aa7b2ecda8788d3e78c549ba5d8e9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 17120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011aea.bin
869b246d1f1e99ff8fb9f27745d9c5f54f28ea171f8e4983fce3c20412c66aa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEA 10396 bytes