Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88785b34eb34f395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-16 06:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8afc1600ccd6c812e132b974ddc816be SHA-1: 36badaf1a63f974d2be9163d0922802214cff715 SHA-256: 88785b34eb34f3953875d46dc4901be9d2b1a91f06699b46e353d1d31b3e78b6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zuchu+ft+diamond+video PDF link annotation
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/besugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/59617487073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba47ce67acb---42262581400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/38097929826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21m30n2rhn1irrqesri3tn4jva/nuxulikaligiputazakitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/redegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839568788c4---xenixavenikipamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d27b07ddc---97653750125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266ab54b73511a73e74d698db7dd2fab/nisigoxajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzupele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/rulitizorete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071da8a006aa---mikidufifexitulozokupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5910af02155b8101fa5c8144a63663ca/10162847870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/519ea9f40335032fa8847896128db3a7/pupowosavaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2b697511c---guzesonaxubategagivufasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/82368058116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/84522846569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a758356742---jasofised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fde9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE9 4972 bytes
SHA-256: b5ffed5a8b53df98d9c2ffab9f0deb501e9ad7ecb08a92bf30dbad02fcc5fa6e
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB8 8036 bytes
SHA-256: 4a656fe9c61a5fc3d22b413dbcb3b03178e640c70ca026f5f44c79b8970e293b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F31 13080 bytes
SHA-256: bea57280d9e838517c7cc890dd82ba0b3982b8986231e26d4bbe7bee06a4875e
font_03_sfnt_off00014b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B0F 16196 bytes
SHA-256: fbb303ccfc77ff713f6e5fd8e64f44411ff5ded0234be53c08efaa5dde66ac0c