Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f87912ef5c1fae2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-05-02 19:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e1b3c6d65ee7e01ce2f099ce0d81751d SHA-1: ba5f444bb394622c0f4efecb90e901d2ca2d15db SHA-256: 9f87912ef5c1fae224dc9509008cb30aece51f05c13cd9434bb44b1a9b067d97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, includes keywords like 'House captain speech template' which likely serve as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca6dc898a---dikiser.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7cd3d3c96cdd5cc95c6c76b57ae357/nujolawiwewikuresusizegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6158887f6---95211490558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d24e48457---29280969453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d70bbafe0---kupejokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/97699305988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d9c7c2b6---pexezofabitewuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6019212f9---xidepati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3163e280ea3428943062c313cdd0a7ce/ropogijevovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8226e9cff054c3b6f9f888e41163a8e1/zabeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8aad612e3---miletidowigububobodegabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9a6ba1673---zerulinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f0f287d13---94398446496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvqbevtek7j95rr24igg6fmr2l/62653881618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df94cf9e51ae79f8adb9c24ddd3a923/mupitiruragamefuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c8eb770f5d1d60471c2c787b1b16af/2384571508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=house+captain+speech+templatePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC91A 4920 bytes
SHA-256: f7fa6f212fc95eaf013fbfdfbc0e3ecd49305f9b605e6d424f0595cdb2b79732
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A0 9164 bytes
SHA-256: 4940622e4759e57d6deb6fe92abcc68ecd20af3f448fdf0ca5a5b444004de661
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333