Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab88978c2400533a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 08:19:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 203b6550c9c0e71944cd1024fe162418 SHA-1: aefb3a1cd46cbda84bb3ee36c016607f934f98b1 SHA-256: ab88978c2400533a1f749a5425ca5f776f77351b8be2b46e6722fe0930fb16b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210710150247.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://myjacksonfamilyreunion.com/clients/e/e2/e2167ce47089e9b789d53270b7cccc99/File/7764561964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/mimabexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa599f63275cba0a6b92270483f095cb/sotimuxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/zefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072222ddca33---notexokofovitowilevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee3d9b40565---8212914159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93271562839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/boxelizatazefodakoxobafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c8b54f7d3---7740822776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfnce03hrkooafjv812q13bial/lolazafumalugabimosikexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab969d24cb2---wopewofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nvu80hei4u5oqrtfsh32p07bq/95769167748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwakapanekemaweguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd71677b9e83f1beaf11cda44b59a474/59549353814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/lepolowexigapamazapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/49658222843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peeweeslearningcenter.org/clients/5/54/545fcf94abc6bccf175f3035c740e6d3/File/3792868548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teyadegitimvideo.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rixofotekubenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/jokigukolokixuputif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakasumaralinuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/225088317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=7.8+oz+to+kgPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ca13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA13 9860 bytes
SHA-256: 32f7ae3d5411d56a3ba5174fd89b3e224975ddd67a4fd861c0728833905a3246
font_01_sfnt_off0000dff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF4 17172 bytes
SHA-256: d38b74ae45975d133c689046e653d0af5bfdf7def63f9f375d84031ebc82a9ba
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1