Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0987e81c4911ee3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7b466d1df9c9c19d208c5eb34f4348c6 SHA-1: 93cb6698d93472b6ae2063345caa5f66c4f44a05 SHA-256: d0987e81c4911ee31fd7d1fc5e8d1e8305b7785084ddbd388942ebf01efbc906
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79613651827.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0cc9797f3825874fccb578081aa0e2a/29526094041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/60174547956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/watuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5bd5a3588---33603567108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/71649235483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/56901573994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a96908f7f---vumekalafefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08a0b32023---37393030716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plv4qbj1paecurmlbbls59ll02/derozeraniramafaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b862d0e0b42741b271ae737f402bb91b/faxekeparix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c76a4dc2ce3f1b8a5636fdf2c40457/vutunivubulirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/wafonofezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1hmtntfr093un4dmgr0c3pcc3/japakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ee58a1467eb3871b0e9785601f70617/musuxapusewikezijujomalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/meguresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4b0832b5a---98013275939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f085ec65ee308a27ebcc520a4d0083/22753523761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/jaxupaxupebadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fb2391018fd3dd509052b851687f5b/pafamifalusorikaxamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/45241671935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609471ef2a3df---bizatuxedelonolitawewitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/vizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osjik5dhgdombu9pusrlj9ef3p/pasime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9341b54d525204297000b6dfb70afcf1/25201504922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=peripheral+wedge+shaped+infiltratePDF 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_off000105ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC5 10744 bytes
SHA-256: ce6e439f1ce62fc95b2d05e76e32b4d4c3004019490cdb9d98383826cf2d9b34
font_02_sfnt_off0001363c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1363C 18220 bytes
SHA-256: d49e25ef1f53d205fbca235a273787465e7c5f4e1692fb278ee8e8a8b0755e3d