Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 987252834ce942ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: df7d37c10aca25881a3ca24027dc4a4a SHA-1: 1eeaabf15a09db3171b28a8b3d615ce74bc0dd51 SHA-256: 987252834ce942ca7d89e135ef0a16d5b95adb713c2678e9ab89f8303df54ad7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://mszukam.pl/dat//file/zewug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/2638273079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/vobotarudaxesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/99993730864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13a2e14497---80005695897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e290724f08ec2b7500e5d6c0aec62977/55309686043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869e2a3b769---23956937247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fd852a1c6---regatevodiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/palerakosetotexosopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fd1732b5e---daxufurukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2gnateiggco414bcnjfdais7u/86137724476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a143145be10---juzefugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/041309178847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iworking.vn/uploads/files/gevilamawugofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608132788c26f---8733011256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcf04b44d2---dawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f711877242c---bozuzubibarijuwetoxakawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/42470842719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/dixizudevosimuvojidiposop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c192dc616---93570472297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/xejiwuwuvilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09cc9ab7b3---91450786104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/funiverokibovuxewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bronnie+ware+the+top+five+regrets+of+the+dying+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_off00010779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10779 17096 bytes
SHA-256: b286a9567483fb0fa76b1f6ceec68b5eb999101400e829c1d965aa7b123a981f
font_01_sfnt_off000133d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D0 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 7f27270ee09ca7493881fc96f2b02eb8064230f6ea984b2b48c22dbd70161c6b
font_02_sfnt_off00014d67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1