Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88306d972c4a8530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e00382e1868d1d36ee2786b56a205d66 SHA-1: 0d34037e36cb62602e65b1d6dcbbe24b89df9a59 SHA-256: 88306d972c4a85300e3da8402ef3cfd9efadb51534287f3b084748d980a1cce1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. No scripts were extracted, but the nature of the links implies exploitation or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/14645095931.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25896658165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/kibarunelakapefawenozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bfa4319653---26666922373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/96169085171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/virokuwozaxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/92947340194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f0386c6e93e41ea920e9a93bfea809/zilonutimonebugesusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/faxiponimizonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f172de33b07---210935282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/mumoxoxigoxumezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdlpartnerss.com/userfiles/file/8986693182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/bosopuvomudipufukemoxakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da516715579---mumovasowetowipapaleraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e98e1b90fb---tawegupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609465021e4f5---bapuxoweluvutufilikari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b54adf232a01bf4dbcad9ef6ff81e6/xebafifobojudubumumifuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4070f991d3---juzesodopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/besaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e73a4f439---dosukexepabunadupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfd236622e---9550133994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba0b56022190af2361655cb5da0ea04/vexemutagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siembra.me/uploads/files/167066049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b68df44162f546f74de5141b2e7d00/dawowabelijuxewigajilod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fa2795de6880d71bf9cd42675a624e/muzaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+cloth+of+goldPDF 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_off00010725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10725 18924 bytes
SHA-256: a590d85822165b896960fb6c538af09b9e76180c6f7029c9b3aa743ca43d17a1
font_01_sfnt_off000137fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137FE 10092 bytes
SHA-256: daa7248e1535bfbd9d44ede59966d01e8ee20c8d8bb7bd8d76b6b59755aefa2e
font_02_sfnt_off00014e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1