Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f87dd0dcfcf6a869…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-24 21:56:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d1aeee2c37d52a2b7cb9d60617d5228d SHA-1: eba370ec31c3e0e426c90c2d1133e431e5213a43 SHA-256: f87dd0dcfcf6a869644cdefec09d8115865120e618484b965c55c9c8e4e69087
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+the+sampling+distribution PDF link annotation
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106b0ac32410---wolepodejukidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbcc0224ca---tawojubikebezusati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/85327636961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14173229873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/butazogawezexekopukosade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab42037af2cba6db79e13300fb6b7fd/bigizubofaridavefaxiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b119a18ad0c---96686295279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48175359794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105010907433481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/palogimilaxamodegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/fexunijixobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/10554670379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021080603043173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c50e263d2---45144010608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e5445061b5c147235ba80ef58bb6e3/43506981105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee920cdea35---47575904642.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrmjum6i0n2hkd4184crgodod0/bepabubemumanavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/10290369908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b1dd6c311---72225149675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/borogenagawopifunamusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/25743367409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/48818155659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/89635647070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB1 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 601bd718f1dce83bf1e62900ec058e04a14ea3d32fe85a4ab56a2fdb0f89606c
font_01_sfnt_off000107f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001200a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200A 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 02292a69b87f72c3ed670711d0e0bcba4b18f35d8482d69cd7c45020e72862e4