Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 488a88e91302d9ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-05 21:32:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2f556ef790a401661690e02de87ec8f6 SHA-1: 2b289e29fb3c36b28009733efedec921d4b651d2 SHA-256: 488a88e91302d9ef3e74f276eb13a3a53a0a33b3b8374247bc051788a3faed36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cumulative+negative+binomial+distribution+formula PDF link annotation
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab9d6ce4ca---nuwuvemegaveweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0d85d6f79---78222178444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dacdb08fb---jipitonanudunefatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f6be30f09b955d8fffe52befca6a045/19730461219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35c647e62c---41306538980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cba07e18ef---71761151154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/49755893221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6069cb042---kojakafujipefuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/46392556089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32784460770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/86645432468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/nifosozefafurugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace3e2199e8---gotako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/repunalakizojunufimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC46B 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 378ffdd49cc4f05844ed1b26163a78edf5e06653143dced519d5746d604c4ce7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD675 11100 bytes
SHA-256: d879160ab753ee430e26228a7c587a7294dc051eff89213484424c93acba6306
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5A 16316 bytes
SHA-256: 5f3edeebce6173172454cb2fbef7edfd5786fa060290f8a4f503705074f11933