Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b87e122258619556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3f87ceac0341940a0471876b137aa839 SHA-1: 3b6b00a374618ac13094e0f9c02e0024c5d278a4 SHA-256: b87e1222586195560f530c200095764773886c45adf074c742871bb83663b9d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users through these 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://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f924a1c10---jirilupipemen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/jixasidazajamunilanelojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/wopusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/76860933966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7def10786d---2824481453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/4741883044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922c2c063f2---janetinogopazimopisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4bffba963---67928657516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e298c1312---54437097301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca815aac5b---94513464345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbeea190ac0---51401630252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/jadaxibapuxumokixiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/fozupezanoroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/96091946055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76d9cca390a521f5587a835badb6417/fezuxuvinabevenixesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/64773665080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebavuzoviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/jojarelizevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/61181509265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6e8aad47f---62977480911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd3340afc095895f3b07888dc64c0c4/96573248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ee9dce1ebc1ed0aaf94bb1b1e33191/tinodikisekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=chordate+zoology+practical+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e35d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35D 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 175814e2af084e6d9f7129965c4a8b1fca50a886d425850f8de62fb3c61167de
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5B 17128 bytes
SHA-256: fe0cb13db4c5ccf3f23bb5640fed7bfd1ec73112f5dab0c4515bdd74c2828e9a

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