Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88c72066b7b1866a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 21:10:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b017144d573cc20de2adbbb7397c0b36 SHA-1: 0bbba07e581a1495730cf63a219bc984cce8aa95 SHA-256: 88c72066b7b1866a5d35dbd7c716306d8791e54bbe134709e7401ad2df85ae22
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Application Data

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication by presenting a fake login or verification prompt. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, likely serve as part of the phishing infrastructure to host the malicious content or redirect victims.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv83tn3jjn4ec2i3ninlo1tqod/85076881310.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/35961175452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/47939525667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607979828b89c---jigivanexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/73981635975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee39fc8835---bevetesotuxojugoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/99382673981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/14042364861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902fe143d65---jowaferojazarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e47a1648fabd880910b9d8aee07d7c3/rifofitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jui6s2ml3qlqdmeau3vh2l3tnl/83936811448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/64102002731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asgpk06567pru8ig8kbkl4arq0/60479172633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/kutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/posazojelevutuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xonizusinudisuzebojuxovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/luxobenexulijixanimosiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/20208513793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/jezeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/ginajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/futisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/13566787962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5149eac12368eb037d184dce8259187/jegiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628124943857575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=is+credit+card+generator+illegalPDF 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_off0000f4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BE 10496 bytes
SHA-256: c2b447cb5ce21b7dcd417d9ad13f9152296c637842cb18ccfff878edb270b8c2
font_01_sfnt_off00010c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C79 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 1d0c5b89be4592c8cc4a915d1a24bf7f5ff9cca52bfb7b455e1d86e77aece280
font_02_sfnt_off00013863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13863 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1