Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b88e22042ca8602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 23:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1b4c3b5737399249595c9cf775ab90b4 SHA-1: 4b0606e95bce1bd59fe67003cb33a2e50e9890cb SHA-256: 1b88e22042ca8602606f8012efaef243e49780b9b34997519e29390d0b831e6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature suggest it's designed to lure users to external malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5c1009111---bubupag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/21975784922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/jebiwijila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99ac24ef9e---xulojufuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac86eb17945---47638350679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/99301465186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fc49665eef5fc6c2e24b7b251aa3be6/demusamilizunisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/legazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ab229ea8dd76595aa99a7cf6ff57be/99929680494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/dutanogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b65a24bc12aa3ddf7fa7670d96ab3c0/kakurupivetoxoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vasab22nejq15upjfhjfdc68h7/bijasokutovozunoxezepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6b454b1e4c4132fad2a090e861390a1/47067222304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/90486992600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e08594c466---65925885032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wafekedudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceb0c4f22d---66508356410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607242fcabbff---najawukobukozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/84448689986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6281af080122ae67fe65bb21afc49706/jiletupijizataxilezosulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3fe7e3131---tufunagofogota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867318cbf2f---63473443600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/kanewewuxuvarulisunavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac650bd4500---ruromoxegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/rufakevufixisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f351d7696---zigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+in+a+bottle+of+waterPDF 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_off0000fa03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA03 10916 bytes
SHA-256: dd26480dbe647b5ead4eb384b856de734a23af6df2c1f018fc72c83221d35f4c
font_01_sfnt_off00011325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11325 16736 bytes
SHA-256: ba7bbe69791bacef52c870f8806741e709bc740a1be6edfbad82aa5a4f8bd18e
font_02_sfnt_off00013e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1