Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b88cb4d3f08c0c6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b5bf755fa2cf643ca59bc884febe2e75 SHA-1: 26307bc918779f33cdc7eb9a2a7e6cb5c0b9b663 SHA-256: b88cb4d3f08c0c6c852a9d418459d083140b5002a6c978d95634c6fae4630239
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+structures+and+algorithms+in+java+adam+drozdek
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/12376558271.pdf
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8174794205.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49d7f8112b---wovefowadopetusuneteb.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c73227eeaf---mawasukagutefigavemikitus.pdf
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/tuponipizubido.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8eecf18bf6---xadokef.pdf
    • http://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/12237291531.pdf
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070738286920---lavorewop.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b116ea572c---pujazalesupufopirewuwo.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc8c4b215b---12650001068.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd77f0fe81---fisepabamiwopo.pdf
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/nufuwa.pdf
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7d52e15c01c09935ce9a77e6faba908/rivikoxolonakupelax.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc2dhej9tosesb5it6f52l73n5/sojazarukenozuwusopatozuj.pdf
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/33582769642.pdf
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/12091589907.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e7cd638c518827e2b72c7733aa9293d/refigarax.pdf
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac52dce4f8bde393635ac4f2d1eba859/muxagexo.pdf
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b0449f2e499134030b550ff300d52e8/25390031699.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/duwomatisisexil.pdf
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/81583280397.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a09e1d705e---ramijo.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/29830179735.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42e9bcdd25---26091695500.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_off0000c189.bin
1ba403fd77a259ff503ef24ae5bce1be8bc700855f713cc5b6dabcf1359cc666
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC189 16988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed80.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED80 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010597.bin
7a40bdf3a7b89a219bcced9360a538392383d002e5097a6616d9848b948b9167
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10597 11268 bytes