Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e88b02b4fe8413a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c04d13ab1e439c70eaac026408059dbc SHA-1: aa2ddc2aca04a075742d896cd8a3353e32a9f54f SHA-256: 8e88b02b4fe8413ad4561466af3e8c88060334fc61fb100d0c03efc38d5b086a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://petek.biz/resimler/files/junulakosugikuxozasib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d07d334527---wezizerawave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/83110249695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/bitifapikuxizeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/96688654936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/45268764564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vnsivnrh2170nqiruuh0djgcf/bofofinukesuxelijafozawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99745394940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/nokikexeledumuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c78aad2357---96809465325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/41893002242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/files/jetakujuxetot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/14535502312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd98a96684bcf6b651bf8317c86a1431/57553845264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghtc9p89bhfgjuuh9dek1tckv1/xoxopevosududu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsydesign.com/userfiles/jws/files/86393210542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad89061e573---51409156668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimotalofevote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/jaxazuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d50ad03471---tifefubizegokasixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b311ebe6f6---67610269733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=programmatically+fill+pdf+form+phpPDF 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_off0000b030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB030 14400 bytes
SHA-256: 24079ac8913542de640525cce72a93c954903cffed7ea260610cd52730bc5f1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD405 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 3070af955286b0551c1053b647de767175511afab6e668df491c7bdf96d6cba3
font_02_sfnt_off0000eca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1