Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e88285c6a7d25345…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 16:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ea848bd0d1695c3076a054ce26818e18 SHA-1: c5bbee94855ae59a16e4412dd2cafe6fd9319c35 SHA-256: e88285c6a7d253455eacadc639d2a230431e83ec358406b42589abe217f29672
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of a link farm on potentially compromised CMS uploads indicates a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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 http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favixevov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff164917504c35a557f8802679b7280/sogorakitafuwabidezividig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/ribopuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8amm9at9t8lbjdf7lj3dncpbs/56517741787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/89452464734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bc5f814ff---85744993027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f7c1c4e0f---zegoruvidikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/dasusibuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/776b65dbc6f06c9ef9ab7e050cb56fa2/38908074833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/12788005903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr9bodsbuc0oh3595fsgjf9ir5/53420326598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38d98229ee60b2234403fc78364bcb4/dobuvosejoxinekesarajepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f8d24e5dd4db8b653c21da0aca572c/31905948112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1763a699581c18ee430d5405a1fa30cd/vevovegajujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bf18f3276---95329710126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46714416536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/depogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/40671114656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7b64056f5---sewofuralegojukisidevemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/93287717363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e679dbd9da---bogidunodijotoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/nuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da99054abfc3c9fa40c489172e073d39/92565612611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f552f3fd7f---5022528861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=baby+weight+percentile+meaningPDF 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_off0000efd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD7 16588 bytes
SHA-256: 79b771b9e649d62ee146eab057544dc5485aaef055bfc0a16d6951d938c18137
font_01_sfnt_off00011b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13324 10928 bytes
SHA-256: d7260e304bd15b127a3b9c5a5a4d313140b140ffe97ceb6909f628a83c59ad33