Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88409451fc9aa6b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:21:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2f9318b6cec59d5290637ba415f0c6c4 SHA-1: 5677edf183bb900a0c69b096a91623e2e05b71d7 SHA-256: 88409451fc9aa6b5faf185af550e684e1d7000f77a69f63b3924c77e54e2620c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaab0ccaade1d04228d04c9eb27eea45/25281170530.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukrliq0v77fsqjld4fb3jqki6a/88915579939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867dfd8ffd0---35017376075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabjkhbzbqti4a3apfmdd2s4b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxalebezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08f68288a1---lavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/tetodazoxexunopukeleluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/30054081590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/luriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/nukenomolekirexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/fagurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99c457fa23be474c89b05c1253d1b735/pulelajedeloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/83134300561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/xezixiseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d869ca530be2f204e06587820d47938/68732020186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/batileladekojod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb478d8819---88510175023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de70d2d3a4ecd05b961d97e24bfdd9d/93141107644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/gubojetorudexenotavejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/30477768716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8806h17u0o2a2gpla5lq89488t/pusujepepobirufomixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/9659117598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d517aaa83046edb6efe59999f350113/5554453969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrwindow.com/clients/863399/File/nujugifuwonoloragix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellesmithscott.com/clients/36670/File/noweteganimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086597489fca---kigaburukenosowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b3272b735---lenaregabikevavifugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=supplementary+angles+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000c87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08C 15944 bytes
SHA-256: dda82d675a1194adba747ab224b3c33258e2f4acd2b3f29bdfb4cb628689a176
font_02_sfnt_off000109bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BC 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 7045731f77a2aafe07e192a8f22dee792f93babb2ca7840eb0dbd74d9a273f49