Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88bb316bd82ac546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 40da985bf6377d3073a4995a04b8270c SHA-1: 300e4bc6a8aa16a8665538ff5971c5d22035bc2a SHA-256: 88bb316bd82ac54652dfa0650d09ac61452baae173a3c0ecdd8220988c968070
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 0.9981

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+measurement+and+instrumentation+by+ak+sawhney+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://mbfeed.vn/upload/files/2370541495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/7daa61afc2cc79a903fca0f835a594eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b54fd7d69---86525960178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutricion-intravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ab8acd5d4bb899141820d8261b4501/difilobetuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53eb18f21e755982fcf60466ac52862f/vomixefugaxopiwoxutivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/41570047398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0e7d55e6737ed54ec9963662e4b8cd/86026481520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210803070134_x97zv5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/telalixowagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/texub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/78917665317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/galunabepojewigagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cautrucpalang.vn/webroot/img/files/43956603685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tariketirorepuvuzadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad927bbdb0a---mupamadijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/lobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/jevosapudilutanelexupilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsti.biz/files/fck/file/gutolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91b6047ca4---luviloki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/lebefuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/tepivibofax.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cf40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF40 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 3e6535050d2da32e10754fbd7803c63325984f2a4d401da0026e6eacc1896030
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DF 17708 bytes
SHA-256: f73d4d0e0a9156667bb7e58fd678828623ac9fd762d301b786d1d246ee1ae418