Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88be7ba8c7f5ee36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-08-23 20:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 18786cd3f5f255fd88fdd3bb77c60537 SHA-1: 981e33621f9772b6d9e540fc9ba6deebdbb87ef1 SHA-256: 88be7ba8c7f5ee3623f32213ee48e6f8f58d28b022688b96c5604d05de52f7ff
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/37164041666.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auuqk7d588qi5ipu43a7k7ssur/godoladofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/jibuxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blif8mj5gdad5io61b2a69v0b6/bumimosudezuvipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d3bc2dbd7---wezixepibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidusavumuvobunufopasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a366027f042---35407524322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/pamebazosinisoxonesode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91bcb14c52---basizopufupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae8e7aaed9243b39ed6b27ca894b7b26/92541629479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/lakukulofuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/50794527071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c18eda6718---tuwojuvozabotexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a975030660e5613ddc2e7843883d546d/tikinogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d789cf3333a---powuzajame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/90979495451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/37207239570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0a7803f315624dfb8fdb6cbfd9c6c0/lizomitevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c516730268---piliwefogipefijokudazitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thfudfq5378oep8rb0ili345l0/81002473603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d360208273f---rurolizaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c6da8b9ee---10170685620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapiadinafelice.it/file/73447041135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/85450625216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ihm4ncbu9dj1hgp22st0gr67/nuzogevigunidixomuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=phtls+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000cf82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF82 10676 bytes
SHA-256: cc83a2d22ba20095b24d39e0ceeee29df6bcb21aec1ee97a4eab031f0e880684
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BE 16748 bytes
SHA-256: c5f25cbca29d2c79b2522cdc46f39db71c2d6dda630d702e1665ea3c4f23c2cc
font_02_sfnt_off00011319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11319 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1