Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d87028664cb9a769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:01:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 801fbb075da5138d477876b96e179362 SHA-1: a9e5fc122f9d638f4f6292001e6bf500209ad4b8 SHA-256: d87028664cb9a769653ab91f4daafd76e9b4687fce370aff33199b90cb8965d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/94351703828.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b5c9e4948---53714304953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080157e3a5e1---78025015496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d543fccdf4---darovakasuvupenagebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d2b567bc453cdbf7362b040a139dfe7/49445509510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/40706783773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59jb5goh766ir7pr83iv14s1at/favuwofaneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f43f698d0---jojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smclassof57.org/clients/34860/File/bojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents//files/pewanumukifidujazepukuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607479f2eda34---zupaxizenoguxufukuzisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cfafae531357a1df331439da7c844f/70957177252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/93208040264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed03pp169ikhn17qvirj61sfb1/67624063348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777f0aa012a---wixanagituwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14061b6d34920b1adee38cbf2b18573c/12087002003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809c30c93bd---zonojomovaxutakama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an1rib24kn39jqgn2c1dhheaer/33613751458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22f8162a8b---wasudezogozusunababur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/38893811513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13eb69b9bc6244cb3b7c5b0eb17b67f1/mewufugewulegofosaviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a442ced0e66---54745759264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0250cd6592---30753339825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=playing+roms+on+3dsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10033 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 2e27e64811a097d3a2d7bce313f9e7fc979e7429c598ee33afd8646a8f19bfa6
font_01_sfnt_off0001184a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184A 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 0b27872ee3387f632ffa0f51774877cbc2e0916f916e7d27972742c12f61baa7
font_02_sfnt_off0001203d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1203D 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 3f69f0eee4906989f44c12a997d779ed923501f26293186f62c84f25181c94b9
font_03_sfnt_off00014ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1