Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88dd3f5038e34164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 1f41715b92ada0bfb2be2e772f5c65f9 SHA-1: 05fdc1df9efdabcab31b38e843e21b7f0768a4ac SHA-256: 88dd3f5038e34164cbedd0c3f47b3d0f1ecd0a23338cc73f90cf6f7f7dbb4814
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its purpose beyond the presence of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9803

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
  • 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://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvkbler8n8slavb8kq3tkrjrme/97162370535.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ladue62.com/clients/2/2d/2d0487a90c18d3a1b3df44839405a665/File/gogezanimater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/widowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796216533e601a1bb6f44c0afa95876b/senonate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/fatixabazozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/31801641721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e62d58e21ad9f3761867eb1203a2c7/27556467515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ec906cfd1---72240540814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/48029086717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608861e5e82fe---jufasivuxenejivelitizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a27b6cad4---luvamebikosabetodidenoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/rizopeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25790a396697daf20ed5936efdd3599/28132380029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17045690652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/16562716320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/53712912993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/75720405462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/dewifoxefelotagazimumaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginzaoakland.com/uploads/files/93553284523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6ori3t76pp9nlhjgh49rhq1q9/97114117384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/begasimamivonomaroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1trjjvilk3jcddk9964i7rt18/vunedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611777856f676---14407456043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/46420586231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/jalapetedekenovemelazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/ropusoxalopeniwuxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=intermediate+vocabulary+bj+thomas+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off000127b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B4 17772 bytes
SHA-256: bdc83f82029a57172694dd2f2c96909272bca6592d87f89628e6307a944e2822
font_01_sfnt_off000155d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155D3 11472 bytes
SHA-256: 807107e4788cefcebaf6750168abcbf9839f796f9dc1b86921ac82fcd0d37cc2
font_02_sfnt_off00017092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17092 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1