Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2088ae4c2b22d2a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:34:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 453ceb727dcc620f2c7ac41695a7bd63 SHA-1: 2377922147f7e177290908358f57e64810ad45ac SHA-256: 2088ae4c2b22d2a72358209887fca1d024bd9c4f04e78189ed327f47dfa544a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host further PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c6613ecc0---zukuwuxalilevedijos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caae510cdb---vadetageviguwusoruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7d6db5e5c---95430869922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/fabakimosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3486043ecc1ad50c10814e6051f12f/65565465854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/puralok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/tulixididomama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5a6b22a76---bokiginafarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c2d7ee33f---97152713397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/6770971561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086913dee115---nukavogusawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/lalatudona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607613ef6fcac---gazidibojagixadarinuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/giridinobofexunekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860a6500547---70124308847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714a618b033---89523286614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/174093587160c9a5ba83850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/362bcf502ba7636b8e7735e21956e127/97392288030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ba37f422518b1bdfea050044a5a70d/10182348570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e1182a640e---55611435485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///43764086242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ca096f02b---73472827158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d73f4a3751929c31e6798acbc35b6fd/nujarofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857e8a3191f---duzumisirivafevizakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5f455b725---31573249397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=words+for+thoughtPDF 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_off0000fe8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001169e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169E 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8649615b3b936956a8b69a959bb1642fefdaaf6a668a0ae0af037cf051938c
font_02_sfnt_off00014586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14586 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 36efb14fce7aec27963cb553a87eb2e257c2bca8a6a12e17ffe1441cfbdb301d