Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d88f89b1eb27498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: cd31f6aca74ef13a48a1218ea8cd9bdd SHA-1: 82aee7c248b7dd10364e64324f3f07ad07c6c878 SHA-256: 1d88f89b1eb27498b7214140b998b8114db5cd9e129f809a4f89e443e34b9560
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=malocclusion+of+teeth PDF link annotation
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32fd001ab6259c4b81ebacd1458527be/fujosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/91386925402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/danujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d81pg69re79o2qitk1qanobd7/wesisakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d4802b86f---vomesuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc96407acf---54906196804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26680e561803ac1c060132962a224257/zesegesevokijazawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/25414562470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898a11a69dc---36877656910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mujanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b26f54d739be17dd4b1b371ba20cd152/11183679472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f59bc6abd83ecf4cb242cb26bafb7194/fuxofumifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1236bc75e1b7395df87dbfe2863f44/wewidafunibemenilelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ea2747d6a---diwigusuninixikutasome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f07ea0bed---54951300249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210520104206_06107m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl6r9djh77c28cr546poa72ihv/vazegewotejuvanikurabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/nuwozunupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db4b13ca0c194e103d3ccdd3f824bc9c/52541377012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acfadbbd658ca19f9e9436b86a979815/zonabiwufimavopogozilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/31944139203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95hcu7sdorcoeuor35t4oksrdd/junon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/63830114723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876d68166eb---93464761646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouuofh7rp4nsaa79fk1tdp4tn0/16830436185.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_off0000ee99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B0 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 4e7ef40fc90219b006ed36dbd95a8d8a72d730d4260a3293059688d5b1d6c085
font_02_sfnt_off00011e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E43 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 493bc39db4507d90c23cfc83b12daa52fbfea16c7e9d0cd3de8af67a2743f87f