Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88c33885b864b70f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:07:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4ca41c153a1c665293d91e7453867271 SHA-1: 3f61bf0d4da3c4ca5bcbf2fb821c2a04bae0b65e SHA-256: 88c33885b864b70fb23d27abb728e925489ad78d7baaabe4c58da0b1e47fcefc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=upsc+physics+syllabus+2017+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.de/uploads/media/67900761100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/28170325372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3a04423d35---finamafolidimofinako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27fb4b7e7e1b32f245d52a55047c3f2c/31506779008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanghsin.com/uploads/files/202108211112216194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/penivepinomunepubajawizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/watipojokorofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904025324895385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427f3bd06ac5625d2c2404b991e59c6f/55220759687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db7411d7abd82261727459a138301443/dogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/16410634261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/sekokosufoxunedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/buxegitefibitibino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/40035878714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/29726500734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/88496999728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7f5a5e219d---22759105606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/76294541673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1fb79ecefd412d2cc541ec6645274df/voxobolaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/viveloferawigutajavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828099e8700---62906495298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f230096fc52ccd53f238ddbae61f004e/kifigujorawusidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25058109459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/74527349003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pspqdp5np15p7lro64pe2e1s33/sivozodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/29665822924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0139949850ee8f056169a004d037dc48/15382575276.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF267 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A79 21916 bytes
SHA-256: ea64fed69f513532582175654d3b28ab57b55fa183f09ca3580d865d1aee2ae6
font_02_sfnt_off00014266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14266 10868 bytes
SHA-256: eadbfcd2f9bb9d4587ff2295f159b146ed0a462405fc39095677f107f5173370
font_03_sfnt_off00015b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B8C 16228 bytes
SHA-256: af03f581ff2668a0af4c203ea6f21fcef79bd9ecf236e637ed6f296fa3df724d