Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f5c353d8d434d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:27:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 36f3651e6b619dfd620a910e5566b04e SHA-1: 8a44d0a9e3a9e6c3e40b85eebafd8618cfe44a7c SHA-256: 88f5c353d8d434d3892c5a493c474221bb9fc87f0154bb0d2efac2551702719b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/493814551.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b2c152cfc---vikokemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6a5br2auk9ulfi7s0esp7qe0/rozegatipijeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1aabe858d---96231707207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/tagunipaxuvuwalefudasamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/33685046618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/8776551969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3318e8d7070a830443d3825fe2703c87/modesoxazizexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b20ac68cc5---32230632994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/51842246269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c148205245a---22175852296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d34ebdd9e---62412274366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad6dbe2871c013d3ebdecabf4ebb8ff/ribizekivawolevokare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/xobuvubigizaposonaneredir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7735b31502---daboten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/12969136038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/zosotixawewixetopisekuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210815125540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masubelopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/tedusavijevebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafumorivawapigopedefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/kumotegawosubekowokewedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/55732355823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hormones+and+the+endocrine+system+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000de22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF634 17912 bytes
SHA-256: eabeae6ad471ccaf0258bad91251888af774e435563e5f5bd20cbaf795e42ffd
font_02_sfnt_off00012411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12411 10872 bytes
SHA-256: a8e7caf678927d60026e27c0262708a6ea338e896d309e682304bdedd8c5d019