Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e88b0c49f0c1333c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6350efe36065e762436263effa545bda SHA-1: e1c586281dc194e5192605386de6571ca3fdd049 SHA-256: e88b0c49f0c1333c41f3070924f8a2c7ed0e72d1c88b9cec12558a21e2906190
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixubijuzimeriwip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dp4lg8e5gh61jemvmkq99lli7/86267362873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73350046225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd0a1b0346---dosomalipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/vajiwinujetabiwumefafone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7394767e2f0ca0efcdab3a9e8c9c024/gogefunirobazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9489aeb0b76b33d0681cbdbca2c945c5/11122221928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba0gp6qphgpgmbbjvrk8fd843/3685126085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609270a3ed321---63972712944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/30042461809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5214839183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/xololisewexulupapivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81787e0e54---nisagamudinavoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763628d4852ed2ddac58a23ca6b6eb5d/5295428398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae07c90fcee---87295615525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050d68344d3a4f4d361d121500971abc/29717010454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/valoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/99108106449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4d56a4c76a4297ccee52ed1a8b67a4/sososelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/61199754086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affa2e277e7---94494606875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkbiaglmaedjqrg8knpqqcsu34/37838424729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ed21ddf59---nifusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=advantages+of+half+wave+rectifier+pdfPDF 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_off0000db7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7A 16956 bytes
SHA-256: c2f38c4b1b147f4ccd6c56eeb093d1b7610e9c81a9ae46d31f90c7e55e61c23c
font_01_sfnt_off000106d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D1 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 77a8ea05ca23e64403a1cc17da40b2a32ddd49d2adaa690f919b374af8a6612b
font_02_sfnt_off00012057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1