Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88cc6f0b076d190c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 05:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3e0a7501d8b66625821cd853249ab8c8 SHA-1: 2a96f6322335bc8de586a72d72a27a22c5d19205 SHA-256: 88cc6f0b076d190ceaea1942b21a411b2822880f9224295b3b99262e4e5e37fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0837134d00---35148742462.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795001a9054---pajinufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96db916453378218b9225769abf4e3b7/50462920866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202107131055132934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4bbc5a9d2---zoxanukasopikixufaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cde2c4601c---miwuxeregamatepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607425798b635---tamatosokudolepafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethtikvahevents.ca/clients/2/20/20a91c0cb94b02964b0d1c5d980f1596/File/savoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5bade2295a---30467801036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0044af371a---7349980784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/livokekuzibonufinefujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6philku3nqemduhenfpcolsa3/bokuwovenufunavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629134806303419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/feregejajaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jqphert3orh8gp5i8740j7vdd/nolodugupajaropigeded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/bisitizivopima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/27553407275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergey-yushkov.com/pict/file/19599491960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4949961457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aabe635dd8---vawumeravekafetezuvonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/rujevoverawudekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t20moedc6f9js3no2el1old70v/kupizivonowexidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/baxulikupofibexosogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4d47330554aaf8d2225bf649438c570/10686838436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bc05eb1d9---35025377376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transplant+chivesPDF 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_off0000ee4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4F 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 25272b1a4b2ae78a98154614c7f42f3001d6f81d7e39f024332f1427e3962c13
font_01_sfnt_off00010689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10689 16496 bytes
SHA-256: c35e135353b1c4b97f5a3b7cfd9b54cdf44e0614cab054574defc7d813a0c165
font_02_sfnt_off00013156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13156 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1