Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 988eb63f03881a9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1ce53659ea43bd53f8a46978151917bc SHA-1: 3f15215e9bdb5083edba9ad1a993f5237465437c SHA-256: 988eb63f03881a9d03a46544c87406479b4bc1978ddaf6954bd53606afc5d6bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF file identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the phishing and potential malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nelson%27s+pit+potatoes+recipe PDF link annotation
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/98546783502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1960.com/clients/865265/File/96363552904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a884e00b0---buzalixinuruwerodukolivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcc21c41e0---5146481902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f0a0d6ca3---20150839623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/6350660397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57fc7066b98d993f5ad23f13c226c156/pusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77f0df16c0---38485782725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/gemanozanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/zesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/zisativinejelefiziniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8d95d50f948bd38d692536794ccccc/85996091804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuathietbi.com/upload/files/sagasuvuduximaduxujube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/74544665017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/bowelawufirafujavupofoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/pevinikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/wuwoxivukuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77384d1dcdc7bc48a0702dce25bba712/gapidasopafubovidejaw.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_off0000e9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E2 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9a5820df818558282f3b837477799675567b408c7e0cd31073376cff74b394
font_02_sfnt_off00012d2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2F 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 3aac8182ce619da5b1a6df987629ce87b2c2648721ba9972abda759dd26dc645