Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88ad3f4433038658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c99d1bff398d77f2807318df7d66f798 SHA-1: 3aa2cdf75c3b5510f263abe9455c846b1ce31b95 SHA-256: 88ad3f4433038658a61d183e13f29fdccb0afb179682e8be350c90c29c280006
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document's intent to trick users into revealing sensitive recovery secrets or private keys. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggests a phishing campaign aimed at harvesting credentials or other sensitive information. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2363fbb2ec45a23b9d98a2c4e50663e/94207794191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/60567184227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66c2d1af73---43120345399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/pisatuzagedakovagowewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8741a52ac87d310fd809a04ef52c538/35338759592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/toboxigijomegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/89651060367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/wokekijideliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/7682871597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745d2766f93---34451164474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/18556201537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/karopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adda9b3d053069ba5e9b1cf3b798ef67/kejofesewazaratevelakasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/xenaxijodabudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/41408736018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2kgefsfmka6mch6n8airi17cu/10232684549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/97818155031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/xopovurerebagamivimijogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv2frt8qjj6opsupr3qm80e5li/pirojafupewulatoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofozelirumoxorobovivunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da8bc8bac6e37dc53281532fe4950217/53822610859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/30688305208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607609f133baf---79145138097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/73405687615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=rdsver+is+invalid+and+not+part+of+certification+registryPDF 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_off000120d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D4 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 220c23d2c4a1811c9462c07f5339f219dce59382b8d22d0998232d2568afa9c5
font_01_sfnt_off00013a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A65 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 6e6d1ff8a1a7d925d596f67f798444b5de03b5bc9f55b5a020ce0a4ecd010087
font_02_sfnt_off00016883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16883 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1