Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88e6a890c7eb5a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 12:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 852b6e1be0fc77a2f4cd5248af7e3a2f SHA-1: c82ed90cd3db4a4e080f6fde70e3b6cb3d7db5b8 SHA-256: 88e6a890c7eb5a2067b89caeb725ee29e9aab917db4c8a1667e4c4727b393041
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=it%27s+about+time+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bcdb8817c---89820868235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/wuzapapepeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c215105fc7c---dokoxixurojelokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0e3ab0898---33309776133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/61191921824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/zitelixonaletomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///9571676200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f2b371b6b---gugoxuxavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/90736528689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/68371252819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/xodazizugososepivibonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607276b34fc12---xawopuruzukopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/vugilogosevofovimino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/pavupawomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uc9moikdu6rebmdfglbflq4vd/nisuzumewiwewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b285a0e5a---vuvipulagipojavefuvepuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5c936098a---ponuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59807697880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4166036a0658f536a823a4be4608f6d5/jujedido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/pajazawufiparogikuvore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ebfb717a0---rawenawepumineke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/rokefiviwijosewewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfq4jmg1n5u49acoqe4c7tb1s4/kevenoxibujegosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/48751103487.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_off00010d33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D33 17020 bytes
SHA-256: d10425796ba17fe7797815a4b6dc8015083570653e6b4817425f1df1968aa4bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001395a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395A 10528 bytes
SHA-256: db8f2b9483fc1cf182251589ab1c6215a083534c24d92439eda02e3a9385bc37
font_02_sfnt_off00015167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15167 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1