Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88cdf43265762a92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 05:18:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a6de6f24b2733593977ea8354ef46ebf SHA-1: 36c185f891ba09a04af471f959a38efe54eaf1a0 SHA-256: 88cdf43265762a9259a7537cf06c5620ded9d7a0f7a46c89623c58086505c002
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a broad attempt to host malicious files or redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aab323bf88---97823534255.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155e79ea150a30ebcbc5295f07ceca1d/55820785084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prattsofdouds.com/clients/d/d8/d85aab9f4bcbae69c8358f7a9990a0b1/File/82772343301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prof-cosmetics.com/upload/files/kugaginozafoguxutenabusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077901a6ee30---kaduxobejewerajunotujoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/bilebuletezowijimadumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/40881943377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/disoredifobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/gadatipileretakejifewafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/98821769679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/nojigelore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk61kq41tlbl02006vrg38k8jb/78180561814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/rexevexaxefepezebukuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/lujuvenepapepapute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a37916a92---zogawaxidegefipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b669d977984---4553126696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/gatisojamabidonigitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df86d790e45ae38b97f6954b9ff524dd/zotopasanevuwebarawote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qt6hg80va3lgmbt42ute09fss/6904768336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47030045998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de1394eedb---51634579158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9353d6d65---zigapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f53735e56---bagokokivorilirigateboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+is+chicken+good+after+thawed+in+fridgePDF 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_off0000ed45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10557 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 84e4e6e5d05faf8faf98426536e66711a6d655cb329bdee2b53441786eed3a50
font_02_sfnt_off00013253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13253 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 9166f636868c2fda4460fef491f53a59ee79dbfbd0559afe1c4f728189fbbcb9