Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88ab4ac01d912458…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-08-23 23:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 40383375c52d817a30b695d96f48a966 SHA-1: 46a240a1534a282436d12cd89278112276775d8f SHA-256: 88ab4ac01d9124582d14f4c1fa53760a344f59e9e0cb276cd2341df3b5a8f5cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a distribution or SEO poisoning campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple external links and the high confidence verdict indicate a malicious intent to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegovika.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/92770165995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/bokezokimoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/lavobexuvodaxuzejotujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d393cc44---katuwosevazapevufazupuraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h818ab8bdmocgtqeolht3a58o/xiguxukowefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greffedecheveux.center/upload/ckfinder/files/futugedajefizitale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/wabedumuxizaxuruguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hidbpebmklqdrjqd0egokihrn9/77140906035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/jitijigaxusuzojutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/kemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/67388311387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac64c52a57b---41068397603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fodeguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobrofab.com/clients/d/da/da7cd3953015cd63472398095fc1fcdd/File/28663237176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/138078749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc1ecf1520e---mawigowajofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d5b86d7712236bf96e11831bf3bd5b/xeribelokidovutinafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210606224813_1xlhzm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccb7b8df7f---zidepiwesumuwowopofedimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c28b6c4937---bitupujijipikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/31974217996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/litoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d82b6857f0---40586687811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=radiator+in+cooling+systemPDF 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_off0000c827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC827 15376 bytes
SHA-256: e9de46329fca19e2f00f3ef05bb575f90d728eee25129b0d261ade4d2f3b08c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF72 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 09b09aa3e2747e6085e6d2eab85600288277ff0582b3b17558ab6b983d246d20
font_02_sfnt_off00010860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10860 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1