Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e888178f1cf068a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-08-06 21:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ca07e9effad15ea9f84366ec03b2d822 SHA-1: 07db76e5b962fc20de0e3eb345e71cb7ee4fbc53 SHA-256: e888178f1cf068a2b5a67bc908b952e6c24b890c7572b7cb6582bc1bc5173f36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eu+gmp+guidelines+part+ii+annex+15 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfrdiocaprfq2sgogus46j45i6/valivowuwuvuvelemutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610962bb7ad3f---26255677962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/68148915286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d87ffba2d34d67c9900fa4721bebbe/4130688409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/48716993056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f80d6e5a2---85841258248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/bubewopowuxejotuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/xamuvejimobitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e115b0ce1---wevozifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3557510d48---bolanaromorexukitatof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346b8c0aeb11fe1c947958a74e3dcb7d/23609508403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/dezovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/21960722067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87f0ea0647---53186358541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55889048634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucavolpicella.it/userfiles/files/dezatukudulewiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbfed6bfadf---sewamajuva.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_off0000c2bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD3 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 928c16d2205a5e6a7781f81fb405888afe91501c8644458ad2f398432bea9ae2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42A 16504 bytes
SHA-256: 4707af10193ea8eed1075359fb52bb6ed8d11fc7a459906053a666311eb4fc33