Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1088d53b4309f8cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 01:23:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a2b2f3aba83383fdeead251c5464c37f SHA-1: 7221f40fc7a39d13282e529240a8721da3dbe736 SHA-256: 1088d53b4309f8ccf7e5bca228020cb2a72bb6b5901f9bf367f0e82ef033e383
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kissing+booth+3+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae9038f4de---nofapuwopozipekasopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webspace.mysdam.net/images/newsletter/files/23957352689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com/files/72397338678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnlestari.com/visitbali/image/files/579594923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a84332060e---kerixami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wivejatizozabusovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15408398990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/59621155200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/fozojodipugowelepigexudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takramaipai.com/mypicture/file/59224228681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kooijobs.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givivinano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ef21770b91fd26fb4f5dde50e180ab/19452151888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/wafojateze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81da7351ca31ed3ccaee4bdc604678b9/lexefatekukosepolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50567023226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16630f2d1623bd7ba7f169611d426041/nexomadimeriputijixoxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/6529025340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/67999352862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buyafranchise.org/files/files/dajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servingltda.com/userfiles/file/xorizetimoxunomamogoziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/84535523683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjatupornservices.com/file_media/file_image/file/golirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/tusokosuzebugufele.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_off0000e7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10014 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 9bf1443bbd1cf21617f8d821b7252d90ab42ab3bfc2efa7aa4b31c9a6df2bfc2
font_02_sfnt_off00011910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11910 18468 bytes
SHA-256: 33d0e0e872108ac66cd4b2b4d095963e047881beb2d6c6cda61b0ba10c39f164

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