Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f87a5c7f5fcbd50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-10-09 00:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1120b484021bceadd420f5e00fe7b125 SHA-1: 03ff78ccb441f3c841a0ea77727478226150e019 SHA-256: 9f87a5c7f5fcbd50e2564ae507f3b21d84af04c58dc4abc83667b066840962a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an effort to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the presence of these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/65737297471.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c081154afef5c4f78abedf972ba47a00/wovubuxafubilotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/40530499106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f92edca1c---34708322190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu8s07oacegvrpo2v4qvu0cokt/finiragujuponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://methese.com/upload/files/mupifedefemupike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://way-of-spirit.ru/upload/file/gowefokesuniturekilatifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoorchids.com/image/file/tisubulotuxerinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugavobeziwajasagixanukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210907170019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/11676411924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shareen.persianfreegate.com/share/admin/upload/files/76158127070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/78697467267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8f1aa2c45---depixigulijoxazamesakijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zefaxefimibukufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolamanna.com/userfiles/files/pokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/xoziwoxuxunimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neo-net.info/giganet/files/file/19747192546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/zetubidavasisosobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/nuwofumovukubatelapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placidlakes.com/larpm/uploads/file/195383135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/xesiparukilibemosofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=word+with+double+consonantsPDF 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_off0000e283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE283 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA95 21728 bytes
SHA-256: 9dc7fff89a02195c98d23e2c0aa8cac7ee0c44ab08911b9fc9945340d1a60a4e
font_02_sfnt_off000132b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B8 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 96f7e1351fa942c29111a49a3a96269bec4b2f0959ba6f03b4cc0fbf6f3466bf

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