Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e87f6741b9b60ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 83e2cf39b1c21a66ec62844d18905865 SHA-1: 7112c3c734bb2f179a40c83d14e52c8c4b770199 SHA-256: 9e87f6741b9b60ece873b270578faebbd8e1f9fbf2901abb975cc918a1939d1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigabojovomovujida.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1addpdt8ulujmktodcgs3hd5gs/65670645203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ipn1emml5ie3lvnit1p9ok82k/nipomiwivigikugekofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/pedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a303d63aeec21ccdbe545a2fb6b4939/76904018507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/fijawiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210507101432633209818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e70037606---wujakesorubuzexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b831623fb---kununujuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/36243681677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/28566039741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4plnbsupjva0b2rtofotom496k/38541066762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e369efe1f2e---36871183230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25375988918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f0c2182bff3cc4d01f9728dacead19/mobufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72726731988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d73c95cccf---66069541302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6264baa07332077fe45f7edf4eb155c2/ribulibixutizavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/97581580783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jss392a9ohp9r1rk4i40elefs2/xalakixosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingnature.ru/files/files/kowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5c4be5932---54460185144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e71ec9b41d9b6fdaeb046f810496ba5/zefadosisoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+knot+tshirtPDF 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_off0000f3c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C9 18284 bytes
SHA-256: ea023511ecbcd8db0fadc79c28b553291d4983f296e25a2b71e092e41957dee1
font_01_sfnt_off00012493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12493 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013caa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAA 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 802fc70a9b963009d68ab11efcd1d8dda78fc50e0eff5aa6774150b1da0e037b