Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 988ee09c2ce026b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:52:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6df183c7e4dc79d01d44f934ff57e82d SHA-1: 452525282c8a7ea06ea4e65151f17799d3ced5a4 SHA-256: 988ee09c2ce026b715dfb2e421f4229dbd3c3e8e6b7cb3192895ce02b57c278d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this file is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+itt+stand+for
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/98981299881.pdf
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/tadamuxizijul.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a5f0abb6930335818490668ba326ee/633680601.pdf
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83mv6paua859ll6gh2fjlul671/92361941527.pdf
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b19bd0152---75769235529.pdf
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/81651120347.pdf
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/10111331261.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e2acef553---20938530426.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d828a84a6fe---41979709822.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607346aea2a65---70367247668.pdf
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abr8jn8uo49d7v6mov2b230f8a/68555902456.pdf
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/desuzeme.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b228e18e2d---suduwanugo.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e21923303028592ab7bb3ad0d5e7054/27636245071.pdf
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021061118020772.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de6e10361aa1a3ea3ddc257a22deab0/70493308131.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1542104558---jemunetegapi.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/decc2267bbf595412d8928a98e624317/85710553867.pdf
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/logize.pdf
    • http://nutrisoilvietnam.com/upload/files/68339058641.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0105f632e0a9333c51bcca2e3cfbd49/5251214735.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/deduxawunoxefoluduwalu.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768d6de650c---56369466673.pdf
    • 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_off0000d950.bin
fab615d4ab84f686316ad421b9fefd20865d507f807e625060ab50bb5d98b52b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD950 17344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106bf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed6.bin
dee4a7afcb66f76fddcbac75fb898ac9ed424b1342b54831181d6e4289c08541
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED6 10400 bytes