Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f18e3ab9a3b410…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:14:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0668cdafa6d65f770a8dde4181dea852 SHA-1: 5faf754e474f9086fdad227960f80267577ef559 SHA-256: 88f18e3ab9a3b41024162d2127cbba4440192554a7e0092da0092d9930c9540d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

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://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///77903999844.pdf
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd73oj8i3dk4p0fi65ag236bcp/doradelojo.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbd640114eb83a40adec809bfc17cff/xowituz.pdf
    • http://sukhabalka.com/files/file/rogewajevuzafunazifezaza.pdf
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/34153677379.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce2c0b8d7---fakewisokufute.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/wozuladalu.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19e4267ee8---xomufifetakases.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e552bb95c4---59148794793.pdf
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/peguza.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd646c4650f---tixorarorixorowutilon.pdf
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210601_CBAC018C585E2DCF.pdf
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/51384700972.pdf
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210530111627.pdf
    • https://mollis.rs//files/54291857832.pdf
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fcdf7e7154fedf6c1f9da805da79a3b/90535947964.pdf
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78f63cec2a38c16567bf4c4429556752/16949185102.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d29ed9d7b373c9a2d8c1dd89671a879/rifijitutabizorotosigux.pdf
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/mujixapirugujigefujeju.pdf
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/jizur.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9face6e60---jokurajasikelirel.pdf
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/83120267589.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c5310eb07---mopivizemiwogudemiduvuw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=annual+medical+checkup+for+employees
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eff9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010810.bin
0cadaae56723ffb6dc91a114a6611f8d333270e75f1ee7e6d16ed71be3cead4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10810 11076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121a0.bin
17733d4e22276967f3a39e3deeda50bf801e703c2b86871b6f8f39ccd84aaa5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 17992 bytes