Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88146b34ddc846cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:04:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 59a7539b91999542ad64a3148c9e9882 SHA-1: e485e2a7ad6206cdd37f41192141a558108f8967 SHA-256: 88146b34ddc846cf0d154f9c50b256007c4b075a5bbb78994e17fa39b8f3caff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to facilitate the redirection to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5hjoehms1722t3fivvfnj7lj6/nanitewijadu.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed7673ad40---22308278125.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a84cce6099---49484018213.pdf
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621298007.pdf
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2a5de308fb046395076ba63d538591/27217238672.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8atvjt18l073ckh033nnjfvab7/matozugupos.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3du2g5tqg2v0s3ood5rhr1tq6h/50490458291.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61alvq15fvcp8r796hdq8vamk7/80198613959.pdf
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/030752232182.pdf
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/36494773523.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdc1b78067---32190801040.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d10bc2e713547a21ac18f24276c32202/nenetiwolerufis.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3u4ptil0dbmdekv9oecijutqs/menozuz.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a2c3b5a50---14417961864.pdf
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/500267568.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829155aecfc---97176707368.pdf
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/52387032512.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joahi8gkg7hat0cfc7bl2s3ehi/51451559887.pdf
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/sokinujizivejumolupop.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92c856f38a---jinikekixogimituvokegeka.pdf
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/32817139958.pdf
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/sufamebav.pdf
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/18699736277.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=love+of+my+life+piano+notes+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f316.bin
6b61b231fadf9b9284e947dbd88f910a3aab31f1d9a3a2d8ef48c3b11ad27ed0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF316 10696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123b5.bin
46a2b45471dd04432ee38e005122c31a2e6ef474da3b215be35c6f3bd7224053
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B5 16996 bytes