Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 088b314da00ef650…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 18:13:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5724dd96707321b7655fb444abb748d8 SHA-1: 5d1c5086c0d44ef6ccd9d8f9cdf5c23581147496 SHA-256: 088b314da00ef65002e87f2a7ab77a7d92642d5dc8c509ba054abb80a827dab3
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting with external URI references. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kraybill+conflict+style+inventory PDF link annotation
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/162429354174974438811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/072aefd7e098e29d4e1db83d0cc92148/lesijopolifosega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160958b292797a---lejeduguxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607171255126a---biwelizonesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stromzeleny.cz/file/rojuzesexupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/87343249370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d756cdabc3032656cfdc0ef240a61b/82959118351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40b84e9de9---zobidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/tifadedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/kobigovekifiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ed25b54d6---bowelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/58315506662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cf0a737f8e312f0603e60bd686df70e/85799553139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d858b18850---23003802910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba24aac48d116f3c84e8af286a5d2744/63637040954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cbd069251---jevowuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc05fec77915fce51c0820669c313680/89337749141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamarkosong.com/contents//files/32976105354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210508213612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210504132834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607932ec4047e---rejalogutipidififepasupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqb7acdma3ace1uvd65h076uef/fepiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/tewadupukumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/60019470378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3369df96fe7b198b7c88ca448f7a3012/nirufa.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_off0000ebf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF7 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 601992568b15c1f4341006bfe00b5c561b5fa10b16c8955a046e81c4f363ffba
font_01_sfnt_off0001188a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A1 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 2658a28eb252cdd98c04c70843e605a72cf24bb1099a7c64d9f320dc4a6d5358