Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e88afca0b73c8077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:47:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8fc46e808da6ba9a628523613e8f94ee SHA-1: 92a779f2268e44391ebf12c636617daee58cd08d SHA-256: e88afca0b73c8077b0fa4e06a8bf9e96c2af7e23bebd45bc1cbf98cbd4e4138d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and multiple links to external resources. Several heuristics indicate that these links are part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403d1a67bac---26526804456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89024800713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunakanyarfesto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51169654918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392a7d63278---labodoxikitopagegoropisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/vitalefusoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88223459841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9855354661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d210e9ff2---kevibefesewaziwawazewawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/dubefiburugopuvojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/59682622442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360a666751e---83442311585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/60093207606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/76520277762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/zogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/20253585002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/36651678371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82518189957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2250a1bef---vixezalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/47415612413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfinshaat.az/userfiles/file/retabovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnk2qd059kd3eibj3dntpvdrgm/20561226707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d98a8f1575---26787487078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sleep+theory+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000e665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE665 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE77 20348 bytes
SHA-256: a14a1da28be6c2040036fbaa79dbca5b7c57bfff74e4f3f89bd3b00d71428fd5
font_02_sfnt_off000133b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B1 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 319d1842fd5f63ed52dfb8d510d62b08b8d2f5042405434527ae2601fb5fb64b