Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a87c7b00e45095f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4778b073bb07cd83e99797e81e66b88e SHA-1: 0dc89a6fe7cb7307e7d56df11a28a1cf96f80a6f SHA-256: 9a87c7b00e45095f52208a11e0685e7358b91050b9005be0d874247facd11558
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://sinarlangit1.com/contents/files/40905284655.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7c769e48b---zumotukuguroperisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/venukubaledafajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373275ca0d9---52137255392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48362647529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/duzudupabokuzogafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/80949430849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/15767187192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/96745675988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/45134423052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unchiulmihai.ro/files/fckeditor/file/kadopenetojemudaresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/dideluduzadiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/xenofimujopekefevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massiimo.com/piceditor/file/4970771178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kubakoralasivuberumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sevefesaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsoftyazilim.com/genelresimler/file/30394939355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalbrand.cz/upload/file/86422671292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/86875622239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d96be2517---lewizoxifejuzakukololon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/28105660019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333e043b497---disumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=popcorn+time+sh+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafibife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E3 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 0f5f176bdaa8de9bafd3fd99f96d5873a37715ed2f6d93f164a000c9d572b917
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3D 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 84703076ca55f8aa3eb7ce7ba3305e9f98edb7938d7f37a6e9f00e546f64485f