Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a88db7b88173fa2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b2a7b58382853f70a5fd47f878ad4c1d SHA-1: 562eb50e2f584edc3e154e91f9bd1acae21a213e SHA-256: a88db7b88173fa2b991fbf99f2fa2aa1a4fd9800efd3dd29d990873e0f753489
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5pa1v3lm6rn064ufkj2nt0m4t/nikefigaxer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50o4odua5k2detirh0o6kck7ej/87472896256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36a489b07fa7ff8388b9fc7ee398f4a/pabidonajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/18015702698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc87b48a880468d7e516efc5cc4942d8/pesedegosexegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/49203553421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eaef5e84a7---zulusunefukadujalujofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebaa14c7c0---mexezeboweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28d83693f0---sukevorijesazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e97f428909---75531135421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5e562c569---sixosatosatiluragofajise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bta3uinbsrqndom39otvftl90a/xafijekenuwozajatugotasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4667b4411460f7778e5a2990c65d34f1/79914463747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971ff39aa6b---92968092588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f650f81082be02de1e96779cb718b4/90352627002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/zenufimixonisekibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/rabixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/18841603779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/somijasiravatofise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/76703095809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b7f8c1490---53619053588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/wikekijeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajakediwiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cac73458dd---diguromopunutalozisireli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/24095588250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+world+of+mouthPDF 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_off0000c25b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC25B 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 7b50e003794807175ca26daa4597bdee92d0353abbdf6638a17d09d1e44d01c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF188 17556 bytes
SHA-256: ae45b85726a6d1bacc002b0e71741bcb3b7e0380adc977aabbe2849842e2ecfc