Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1888e750998750b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-25 11:48:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 16143f6dd486e7e2dbd990c56c8f4631 SHA-1: 3fe8f2780312b5f199cccd60df4f51a0cead7c44 SHA-256: 1888e750998750b513d2938b8cc516a1d7df5b0144deb63e4f93b95e78fe83c7
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits malicious behavior by employing a link farm strategy to direct users to compromised WordPress upload storage locations. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vulqgrrr8phhso0nr4he3kserv/21424070803.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f3bc0a2cd6f241be0ef59b7204080f/87829445138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/jedonirerimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsyrulnikov.ru/upload/file/bivajaziboxuvebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e640cdd27---79340888946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85366909420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/zubevurinexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/81744639161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664fb2238077a443a6199ae48e2ee07c/zizobewigepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d807f1c13---83532033923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092eded8eb0d---jigoloxuxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/3876355224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1606cfc9facbc5---wodugirigemixagaximivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/dofavoxuvanefitekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doremimarlikinsaat.com/userfiles/file/4203193274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/69110109948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/pakelimafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/52291006284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d3b6fd2ab7bc3ce67aa7a90292ac179/68813931919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parinet.fi/tiedostot/files/zusakaborun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610dba01ed086273e5ce7e32e8fe128a/wogulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9baadadd96---47430349736.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ej9hqc83jvd5k6kgf7660ha7/77177006199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/pedovakazifirazowawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=kmspico+download+for+windows+8.1PDF 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_off0000de46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE46 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8f0f0eafcebca7575ada0aa68a73d42818420d765d3b5a5d2dc12b54c44b8d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC7 15900 bytes
SHA-256: 48a69c895cf2e77f78c8fb4de90e5a2e7315c7890ad6a7b5acc1356e405a8a76