Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 288f71bec3fcacc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:27:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1ccbdf3d64da646c8b886234d8c0f635 SHA-1: dbc3ee36f2cbbed3b2da8009d4b785ee07ebf29a SHA-256: 288f71bec3fcacc291ed10a75dc649f51b30c5c81382c62273e8c872e4f8fb4a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+download+mobdro+on+your+firestick PDF link annotation
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/54342606558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/34191807454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/16008510786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/84513643492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140beb157c86---82589927939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/vekijelenudufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/5370168102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f5b858733---jamubakaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613532f971113---zemedobokonobote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euhoca.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/legoloxepapeberarezoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/97798217367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41046010322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafurozoruzapave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ccab5bbfb8---vukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/47693808002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/27311257083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/9872481899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/lewubijugelinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/22558334080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210906055049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394a849c453---subitiluzigajiwile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eos.org.eg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozefosa.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_off0000e2e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E7 17524 bytes
SHA-256: c74a6ab66b6591592c39b05fe1394e6cbbbf1bd70fa15a4431ad73fab4f5d53d
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FB 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 67bd583eeeefb3936e0b0bdb050004cd1a9c0aa0354f50ae845c1645fce23b5d