Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f0876e98296f31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:18:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6f3d4662168a5f246989d7dfbf998ea4 SHA-1: 9c4078e818638b92a7f37427d069b4c5d0c8af49 SHA-256: 88f0876e98296f313b7ecedbcac571ae7a40fd65204398f0db05ea6c81eeb0cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+skins+from+fortnite PDF link annotation
    • https://henuopack.com/d/files/jamagibazosefenofogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/fojutanosetakepizovulosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrekruit.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/juvosinisodetumeloziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327280c9c5ae56d97a977e7053726846/wolafizuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kossuthdigisuli.hu/userfiles/file/50875845627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wofudizizizilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukimukunotararisijura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138490c62bec---37506865776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/soxibolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e6177b00b---55171047749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jsptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96518905371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zamovuwolujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b7872d221---86253656114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villacappuccina.com/userfiles/files/kipikexarorika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d19aflmua4gda1aqoruce8qln4/nomokuxerogimarenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/lugukodusukubobepipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/54144586405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/86614872181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/fotopufiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dymenahealthcare.com/upload/fckeditor/file/74744674030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/kiwelizofemodolipupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/54638769275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/98675315068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b69ec413bd67fd08ffc7e4786d6a2dc/bedefurajelaxezitared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/18679873530.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_off0000b3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E5 15000 bytes
SHA-256: 943c87d9da2117d1b510603db81aea90fb33db0dadce14bfc42a6a4de46fb327
font_01_sfnt_off0000d966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD966 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 1c5513b8c8e375bfcade699e3f969edcd79866311e6be2408795b724cd048ad4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1