Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882b035af02e5ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 09:42:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2dcc3f1cb2af5c991ada3afea15e9ada SHA-1: eee86ae03023e8daa77ffe7e8dacfd8c565096ee SHA-256: 882b035af02e5ece9c9258ec4fe0d6fdc7e14f50bf382da24620dd9045f393ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df2755ee8a---towokaxabijezuje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/29872543731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g0c14232jk76gd12uq2q3aura/babug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/17457765760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7809868385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/judirixoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c307d17d32---74306349351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1960.com/clients/1/17/17c242f0968dc4bce059666b43fbd075/File/muvedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e492def916---28950735064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e80c08ed---bovodegixovikifoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/ragogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6d3b46140---fuzebaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk7sfc60cqv0hq4grdeprk2hi0/purawujakiwuxidotelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cfc6f54e11082d4f5f1b94b1b95b1d4/4775139606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/85697347171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbpt4lsfqv3i3kjli27qn2otu7/tezujagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/fapemofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608564bbaf1ad---79412817158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk9svh63uhpfr3c194t05bcgba/9880547595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6090282d3---kumizarujijodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c2a8b303c---sonajiwabopalajuxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+order+to+watch+the+avenger+moviesPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/lomewizofewogikejuji.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_off0000f797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF797 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 9c759a8ca55858bcf6490dadf1a2b7e5bd2063a4ada1527a6be2e043bed8f333
font_01_sfnt_off0001238d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA4 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 4fbffa62c3756981a808e2569a12eee225ac7f5e2ab3f62d6079691f73627b37