Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88580b0a86531c80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-06 21:53:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4c20017f1bb3fffadd36c371c35c3fe5 SHA-1: b0317d0415655ae6c747c447b95b3957f1e3ddb0 SHA-256: 88580b0a86531c804b791644aa9db718a5336233be14e29502affb49097c66c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=swamp+attack+cheat+engine PDF link annotation
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca76c68b18---mijemerepubuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9e436af8efd3642c55fc52fab0751e/tabaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a60b1954f---31855159556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b314d5272b2---jodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20rp3mhsmad5htr8p3uope5t33/pibijazomuruvuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/233364d90c0d2e6aa3004f51aedd904f/28787502117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpr143e63ekj0tura4r2crd66h/gotufoturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ada3b5a481d6d5aa872925383ff6931/dumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9936000362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094132952aa9---dujegali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/93129380123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b89edffd8c919e616c71622c829902f/94484137940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ae14540356b8c99b40fd325188321e/96357639049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e03a0d2397---69420670178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/43816600031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d89bd28036---lijewiribuwojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6ab5d3921d6158b3d4edadfb025101/luviwadezabesukolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7fe5c78d2---ziniwufu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001017c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017C 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 78be8b56155794a680e5d3c2f97749994829a2ad245238bf4ea95e6123c4685d
font_01_sfnt_off00011374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11374 2352 bytes
SHA-256: 96ab08d4e4bbc765a711891813ba24335da31169662a42badaab5c5b1627a1af
font_02_sfnt_off00011e15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E15 10716 bytes
SHA-256: c7ffc125392bb43f7f41daa438db050cf40403c179cae5ac0934fe9bb9de8acf
font_03_sfnt_off00014274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14274 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 3dae81b76154e7c62b3b0d30507344c78f02ee9172d09a03fe7a9af96af9e849