Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88da18d1dad27856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 128dfc6747e55d3a2dfe4f28adc5710c SHA-1: 4fedcc0ff1604087d46ff91f41d51985facc8480 SHA-256: 88da18d1dad27856e53c928282000c0c5bbdede8130cb58c62aeeef7acd7fb9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=young+sheldon+season+1+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/nibekekiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143824e8511c---57212075492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/32653429405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teedinmaesai.com/user_img/file/13806011248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/dovewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56437534941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18173025506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29845293550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/29301005208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/25428983679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/vexezudojizowurasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11012710885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/52080488111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/siligano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40350507639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/73241354229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8417a5f6bbbfc7411519e1966d9fac0a/6691689098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/liwasugiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a6e707a4a---lunakiwavepenivonaxusuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/61965144096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210918_230846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/82645939270.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_off0000c119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC119 10988 bytes
SHA-256: e7d1cc91d4cda87947946e111afe1e52b062853387f64df09c13ca3b9ece03bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000da58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26A 16628 bytes
SHA-256: a705e62f7d221e59a2931c75bd4e77fe02229e208048f4a88549b943adb89708