Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88b83217b08c75ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:22:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7daee832d8f4d63b9b615d5541d6f4b4 SHA-1: 30263fa8f81d9e192a481b4351c63be7bbbf5e28 SHA-256: 88b83217b08c75ffd191e19e1a11ff1b4d746247066a9349f015fd3724a0f40f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to exploit user trust for malicious purposes.

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convertisseur+pdf+to+excel+online+gratuit PDF link annotation
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e45f1d0dd84---wesolekowojifipewelegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/4349039093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/bumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/namipitupomumotobitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bef232412---lufeseloxudejetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc47a3b9d0c---64415232713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/71249521871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955f632915085a8ff4a93af3448e289d/gepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/66911612941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alugutader.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5307671085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021061600470670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334fc6594c7---dovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b3d7defa6e890bb6a6bd53ef0c28b39/5140331505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/rinamidusofaxizawire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28738ed2a2---74115989396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11783706936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/12151432592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a507127886---nusutepuvuwuxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747abf91853---98990849103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efedcb6326---78810878638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/buzepubemepeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/dajadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/291507506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/pugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD864 20860 bytes
SHA-256: bdfa1dd03e481de6f6ef5a16f1527a4e41f978365f088adb0e8243b9fbae48dc
font_01_sfnt_off00010d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5D 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 48aae9dd9a578932d566210a335a06a863776a06844a6aed533a9a521271be73
font_02_sfnt_off00012742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12742 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1