Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88a91173796fc04c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d0aac8a0a2e6232ef54b4bd7832852fa SHA-1: 959519b2208f9b4ecddc4c0cf7bf146fb23cb3e2 SHA-256: 88a91173796fc04c101d5997514d064e35d476f2257fbdab3652c64ead778e11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised domains supports the phishing and malware distribution attack pattern.

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1077c84ee8---15943554987.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19067622825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a655585c4094d7e1e6cddf6fbc4ff26a/xigufogunogofopavawetatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cab7448c8763696c1b2cb10a89bbf93/93134447556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/21182090272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/kijefanupizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72118bfc79332588212bcff3a89be797/91969270290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd569c258---zapajapifisupexeraxosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63308eda32---guzetasaxetuvomaxamari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089272995737---bepijizivatanosos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b16821c3d---gazanekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/60370038447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/bitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a1dca36e90---41507557465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/79170706641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/18928578593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/52615306277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rededumaxenarali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozirepikivitozeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3974a0e9fb57ea31696fe4471e1b4a26/widexeropagoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/607f69836f08ee12d6a114f825f7724d/zuboximagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchs1969.com/clients/867877/File/zugeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/84766308365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1dbcd2256---81866743653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=la+chitarra+jazz+manouche+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_off0000d913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD913 18752 bytes
SHA-256: 47cad3ac785b2753f811892bbc77664aaaa69a663b56fff71b96b9a6814ce03a
font_01_sfnt_off00010a1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12231 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ab65ff7d788e35e3fbc07e5bf6b0d4bc100579e63821ed2819103b750d4d4acf