Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a87d2c6a3e62fb80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 18:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9a743d44dfe9e98d7255f34e53ea8e2f SHA-1: d19f2cdccebdf2d3a856b9b9156d77dcacfbe99c SHA-256: a87d2c6a3e62fb807367f2317627feba1c420b8a55fe9aafb771c6ddbea2118f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. While no executable scripts were found, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/8129346818.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://songiadabinhphuoc.com/upload/ck/files/81163798520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41408346285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6898c3291b---rizotegigoboxaremukajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adba33e3846---zaxaladujeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86755864399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59543268418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9527a08219---valoxofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2c9c8d58c7e4dc68fd0b1e5d939d08/sidubazuzexiken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7eb360a02f---fevotiravewixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsflu7p39mn1ailuiph54rvq81/71943087308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2ic24bjotck1vq7j2ju10lktn/36965570692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/xezanuborifewapujuwogima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65cf895095---8456757666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd740f5ba340bc6a8d7124b4d6e6ddd5/7399529605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97421967187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/numejajusawuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8u7p2uj56vuvt2gu7iveb88l2/togumabenojezifizetebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/jaxuwabipitalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24459700057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ddcee7ce792ab8612de1361841cca4/zulezoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/2183095876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/567af92632bfa533da7aee775b8d550b/wixafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ee299321e48e4d729e6be3411b0e88/55312586701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae11882e5a8---22442295214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4fd82e9d7---17874649710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=times+puzzles+codewordPDF 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_off0000cdc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC8 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 3ded9eee6cea797d34e0756bb5afe902fa61cfcee08b9e348c52d2ead98720b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001138a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138A 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 7e7feb478be64f53dd9235bbe9aa2b4c87a9b9f8803475b0593c416ee446d297