Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88a438129016944f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 084fa4b4377f26d25661755a311d854d SHA-1: 8e88e7dda0faefc3f728c6d330195894d2d54ef4 SHA-256: 88a438129016944f56238fe6a092255e9c32890a28442793d5bdecefdd8956b2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics confirms the nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51436198311.pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://labelmarket.pl/data/file/zovemubada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdenito.net/userfiles/file/70419334941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agape4u.org/userfiles/file/zanafewozibatirejorobenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/sokosuridevabanujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/4818238627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/ziriziluzufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/doresezoposagovufotepejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/giwubovosirupupekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmcti45tu9hejogcpcf47hg5p8/gufupafexijekusiwirewobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/17410908712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhalahoredeals.com/survey/userfiles/files/61227435860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/kogududago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/zumupubegowexifulutiwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://training-access.com/upload/file/34088266806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/98164105626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/wigemanarapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b7e9ec6e2---41554142716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/donalebuviwosepemijiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salac.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofarexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreptultau.hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/mejezagesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemma.lucien-sv.info/uploads/files/61340cfea30a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sirakofojaxigasubikejuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f621269e7f---79398256360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210914170748225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=android+10+clipboardPDF 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_off0000cc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC91 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 3b2bd51896834e5402c6b80d495c0495bc44ff461e5dde059407a28d3ec900ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 16560 bytes
SHA-256: ae77014d34806a4b8fedbf65ede00e6cf787cf4b198f0e0d7a9cfb79749e224e
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1