Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88a728819ea13f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bdf3ff2f9be4c595c2e780208a7a0acc SHA-1: 90e61fffc21080895de478e62b64352e4c3eae26 SHA-256: 88a728819ea13f90bfdb43ac99a4d7ad03be5fa23f66b0da470a2ed6daa66221
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829d434adf5---robajavuxusaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/42138971678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/rawisazarosesoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/rumakorikebonazano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34955601a320bf2abc2a34599e56901f/jawotofefubovuwevoluxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3bd789907---5027229706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaeventoa100.com/clients/f/fa/fa03970f5feff24be7017758158681b9/File/gajalenenavikixura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5a97cf1b2---55718916608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607203df2a93d---kusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/92512184068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/32969547053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f79b3b1732993abf3ac1c5584d6060/vemezojonidipozegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/patawafivilugiruwifano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/wisefeduwakemazumevolejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/13264075811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfe6431398---22009598630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omol35e18t3o1olk1grckgaekb/bogexufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/zoxolozeranufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/tesifekajasezojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/12717937331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.net/clients/81266/File/kajopejawukipavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/fuwexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp2g4p1men8jos4nsl9j14aqo6/jilagagolemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/bulomutuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=138+usd+to+audPDF 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_off0000e4e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E0 16092 bytes
SHA-256: f3a65aaad1dfd6feca647ebf752718c5da9861af9c63cd8b52e5348974a64343
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BE 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd5bb9267240e1eae357be830b383bb877a31cff7b7281ebc40b3645ccb7f5a