Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1888dfdc9ade0400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 356015c206bf530d5c06e1662b049abf SHA-1: 84421ec71a44cdb3bb673821e73910800c037987 SHA-256: 1888dfdc9ade040037e1a4386b3024ec8680032c882328b9c948d4131ed529e7
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or financial fraud lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or financial scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/volixafororagebu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/76281559911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/tenoxibunujiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/36610473159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/futujuzobopaxukajugugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmst.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/8879730393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f403ce6da9---rizinunowevosobasegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf8jgsb80smc71t0egt80qgk02/49556104977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761ed876086---41678720404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb6791bd9e78027964afc6630e799b3/90955214177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97295732281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/jegozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607990e2d829c---purudegasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72687318705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/15257116877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865f935c56f---22168079784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/xubuxirolijajiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080747cdd346---53018054621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43821047893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607467103f353---dopixuzovurariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/nexiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=factoring+methods+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_off0000dd7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF593 11000 bytes
SHA-256: ada819029afe14e01c75c15f559ede8f6b146c8c0f711ac447c23ecb1e224ecb
font_02_sfnt_off00010ebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBD 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 829784b23a1422faac92240301a15e971368e7b47c9255887925038787251147