Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c88c18cf3194d655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 15:30:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 713f8438fe0b5ee6f69b3e45c243c6f7 SHA-1: a3931d4d3ed2c38e32a284d5ebe9aea40fcc67f1 SHA-256: c88c18cf3194d6559a9ce01b288dc434e89b322edc3f92620a556a9cfb0d854c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=process+essay+example+cooking PDF link annotation
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93c8265f67---kidawapukapobobanoranuser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/foborogugatujunofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82e8395838be0cd07057d31b0f487624/87318155924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160958a975a952---84222819705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p80ef2n2pqogeqrqo8btq3unh5/25766062838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65uuj3pvhf5jkbialq0ms3er5i/ruwomapumedebimuxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/35754298059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de75eff5af572626b1d504723b4e7a6/misej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/69726397079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/6081104072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedoro.ru/upload/file/muwovidese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/kamozogoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bompentax.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/sixejezobirinebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99691410460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/taxugopepiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/95273329849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/voxojetesuwutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d29fc3bdb05---97713611339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/39788259577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciobanados.cl/upload/file/In PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/fuvunuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/51262993392.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_off0000e713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE713 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF25 17560 bytes
SHA-256: f80af26393f9a83e1a6561b361ae834f2449bdd4cbfe204a08574fb22c3aed30
font_02_sfnt_off00012cd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD5 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 7aabc1c5a421d5f1a3813bebc31b3c10b0271385fbc921b0f61951b7760cc5a7