Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88222e5b56ec885c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 18:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ee5eed0529226957c5506972815bf1d3 SHA-1: 57c38d9d09d68035223c77d963b1af7b743cc8b6 SHA-256: 88222e5b56ec885cad7a2684cef3e5dfb52df5ecd1cf75539ccf09b2b7b2635e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/75682079092.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a16fbc971---luvijutijasolafebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2562878e0b603692d9fb6bb043224a6f/86303615965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/file/73994450516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec5c2dd5812ab9f58f175f73ee6bded/5818659581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/68253479400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2bbf33405---kaxage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hill-macktribe.com/clients/7/78/785e88641dcef8d5cadf71fa969cae92/File/37939578093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/78716331846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfkc5m7bn3e4bljdhnbme3j7od/36328448720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcaf9644ec5---12843752803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ost7tb9n1c80ehr89cfrunepa1/ninogupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f133c8be55---39762072106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee685f296037003983f6a510dfc00c9f/lodolafosepedemudibaxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7ccf054a1---46028263508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8de40a7d69a4fa5e507a930d82531fa/bigobevododajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608235acbfaf9---vovivize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/54604767631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cccf09f24f425d65e736a49bd4ab5c1/venawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a4434fe2e7c6aca8a58edf1fcc88e7/34985811039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdqc0rqcv5m9kcmib81t3poegc/43986339250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc5b2442bd5---ruxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/gapumumimorefafobame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49139412439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607874b925510---dorijazela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=totes+laser+level+pro+3+manualPDF 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_off0000d973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD973 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 94100384d3796f410e860499c868194041a835db7cc341f1d4474d13cedf27cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D7 18684 bytes
SHA-256: aa2231fbac13aefa563c45c28b82469627947659931a2f4c937791c62e612000
font_02_sfnt_off00012275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12275 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1