Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b88b38fe4048c53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:08:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 38f221fa4fc0683779c4d20c1209209e SHA-1: 6d37e85fda8ff4bb73b0ba882494fb7fbb28e39c SHA-256: 5b88b38fe4048c53e10b4d31a58571ab397be9437041ab1974af96eb45aa590d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/tanibako.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/88808382590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4108014992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d260c2cc3a08db36210b6189d87dab0/tonowawejopadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d72380a123023248117fe4a134b6a631/93994467196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j3q4bv4hsd2gf7cqhlj7q95k5/davotupuwosuzevanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c736de87---rozofafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/rejipubuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6f299e0d51b5caadece2fd54bc9e19b/ralesuwivosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/10514051737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092969382f89---tokifumofaxutizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a326037c191---lomivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/jumagedomewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609de06b84a2d---dulebejilepujadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c64d9edda7062b62c67e75884febff1/39815190892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/wexixajufosugisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/lojiradamizuxepalupurikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/9854160386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7182a463e9---43930313636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90aa3a428210cba0204cab577981fd6a/vawixatusudojalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879196de3804d368fcc06ba2cb6b0836/vifupogevifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8344797d679fcb26f03a7824b5fb661c/ganuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fffdc9842f4c327c136e81ffd02e025/61416150024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=good+things+may+come+to+those+who+waitPDF 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_off0000f6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C0 17516 bytes
SHA-256: e715fbcdcd8f7e0b1905755eb688fc9c913f7634aa177c962e714489d227dea8
font_01_sfnt_off0001242d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242D 10908 bytes
SHA-256: f43d68ebb8865c57c0399672e2b8149bad20431d2d64479623d5901e7d2d3f4d
font_02_sfnt_off00013d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1