Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88090502942a940d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7c9ccff2a88208978073b349dfdd7b6f SHA-1: 1cfd0733b89756662d4c502183a2b5c60486cebd SHA-256: 88090502942a940d2d686e980e193a8ed9a27a51de5666b4cd29327125e01fcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, specifically leveraging WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The PDF structure and link farm indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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 http://debden.org/userfiles/file/sunul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/jetiwiviralisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/pemupefesixexagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5b43da692---10653161865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea26c00e6e---91503061210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c853e7900e---gilerotufugituvemopola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b94c4ce711---finaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/82750315351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdabc6e02b---pobumapavobepololefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcd6cc0db2b6849247799e05ad212e9/fegewanogutabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd7a577d4c0---kasizuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88783120886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfe53a5ff0edc735da0a50dcf27f1a03/pafixogisezaromom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23nj6loh7g7pd48627su8qb6pi/88899485319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/38821220372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da6f9647f4d---28330949181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097693775a47---13558178379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66dd2uercf660thbq83uhr5so7/35517945017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/90524985395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e4a77a2d4---sevenunikabuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813f84542f9---74326190076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3928s1dkq01r7plk2fhudjj4g/17667480003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208e53eaa0f0e817f90de0cb45f6a0c5/31172513152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaluvujanebefufajivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/rodibevinavawobowixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+margaretPDF 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_off0000ec5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10476 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 11a22c3c4216c330547b34d35bbddd749e08f4c9c15fb88bcf24c41beab6e35f
font_02_sfnt_off00011bbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBD 19056 bytes
SHA-256: c3f328816fdc0d5901f89f7b17ced389f774f3d9e0b987a85c53865d0271c88c