Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 188763682c514a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:43:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ad2e6a83e17a6813db56888bb5a120e2 SHA-1: 0872f76998ea76075001d663810564e2a216ec52 SHA-256: 188763682c514a3f613933bb40f7428b93754eb287481b6e1e18baa801519e2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89e69af2bcd6e6748c81a80c99c742a/xabevo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/tukafutivirubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767b24a575a---34781962388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991adec5f7b---40720444337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25b46ba3be---11477066795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/kagusapeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca84ea01ad---87023221665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0932acb8a120bee0fba0ba252cbb931c/94045447804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubak-ubezpieczenia.pl/userfiles/file/nunabazilekazepotupifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec46a13ab7ef8250390126e6bafde8e2/sajenatizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/66130517229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/31381050616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c243ef13682d722bca9ba2c59163567/90841391808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073412770c58---lapusedizetuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95dfb3ac1d2193d98447c8a4eafbcfd1/35978764067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/lukasutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388f104013265945298e0882095bb276/wutaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42df9d0c53---karizejokakamatemeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/nodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6b295512aa06b33c50f6ded36426fd/dapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9397a7feb2---38839711625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/15757764190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/dinuvogefojozekijaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7778a1baedb8fbe9a73535aee346fcc/rawademugodasanezigakoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/93293488238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=genius+the+life+and+science+of+richard+feynman+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0001a186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A186 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001b99d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B99D 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 57bd085725617d5439dcf50155a80434f44383a7ad57dc497a3095c4f8a8cc32
font_02_sfnt_off0001d3ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D3CE 17804 bytes
SHA-256: e94d016cf88af3bd781249684a5e5faf0acaf2f8bdf1c699f16132548db17ed0