Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 880eb161ef6d7b72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7193118b0db52bfc0e9befc0fb5d4a08 SHA-1: f03d45850977f1c6ae66484cc2d611fca5cf68dc SHA-256: 880eb161ef6d7b72f4230939cbcc6885475ecfbfa9bb351446357d77ae6b835d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+man+god+has+for+you+free+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607193a416d76---luxokijebopululosawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608609e167a5c---pozamuseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pee3fecuvcrma46qauonn1dbv6/30918618958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c2e8275f4---62896407715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/83654421853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/63979033792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/paxafepusalupewelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///58101326650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f5082cd3f575d08e393df9f28714afb/kixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/famogutokivusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/60532379833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6j9l8pt0j00i4rm2j2h0n0rp4/67301307029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexawavokowasalaxeriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f13947d44c---16242367705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/zapinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f198e3729---90740130540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800c855423a---risazawutogafawibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c618f3adc2b67c59b060c788063b3b/36154242541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93043440005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc10991c11---96180538858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/4812998778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62d00a2b07---10214740136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/11585982534.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_off0000e892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE892 11016 bytes
SHA-256: a332ea5a9e0b674c70c41a78437b9819502b213f1242c0e15c32e505f069c21e
font_01_sfnt_off000101d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D8 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 62cd27ab402dfb3e0bef8ab7b0e633bdf19f883347d1f4e6ab484d98451f3bdf
font_02_sfnt_off000131ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1