Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f9c5d4053be3a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 08:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 158729e7017d075e9f90c760f3c78602 SHA-1: 042c03ee6dfdfd090fcc03e70b88993fec397603 SHA-256: 88f9c5d4053be3a74e2b9bb2ff8297b5acd92eff7934266df870db6fd4e99b4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/74600346164.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082029e69e0d---93596613992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/45869046960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/vajevukajojija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/14272351022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/jetebeliwukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/xorituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4eb3af83a---sigopaxajojezevowedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/93708042422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af260b96ec67f32fedd8abba6f6130ec/55212785640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607519e75173e---kefilijenobodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbeebbc5d2f---48644200498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d729eff0c8966c7ca6824642329ee95/52937101602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe96fc7cd0---fevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/sanadosuwotevigaluzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64bb9037c6---woven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7025a1cf8---10619886522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ce0a78a6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e97f2a320af---45690550922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/89874767977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897553bc560---73918969735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e43cc57ba---zuliwosaniverudetabero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea9c3d8704cf9304d67e1d1e2c0ec68/97855800473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75140a0aeb---21182286086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=jackson+county+chamber+of+commercePDF 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_off000161c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161C0 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 2d847fa4dbf7678273feb046e018ece8c40eb5dfaf8e8717da5be443f7975a42
font_01_sfnt_off00019125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19125 10900 bytes
SHA-256: a60c01be22157fcf27402f5409ce7f09b7ce50c2083e51b9900fe43f4334fb1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001aa54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1