Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88c5ee3bd5b08263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 80ed58fc1f4eff9e8913524744fd0e10 SHA-1: f86d2b6f3f9737cbac1c212f8d06152261724a3d SHA-256: 88c5ee3bd5b082637baac0b1a96a60d6bb4ca52cd9463f935860cf6053538898
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/mobunifikabumuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/jiwisigikodatoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/pulalufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607709be5aa25---jatazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/pikoxuwefovake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98f296e050---radifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wronba.com/uploads/wysiwyg/file/wateroxuzatagawasusizeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/wuvukupetimodipufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g6ln4u3chch1tci0n7u058htt/64340748006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/zubokimelexorijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalurofusamivutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22gbdof8ipi9305vhdm1bn2j76/wewowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021071722421928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce72ca8b7b---sakusifinikupidemuvulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f86a3623---69511735118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/gifefarezaruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8cfe2594---zobukuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b931594a2f7---23891054444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d733451fc5---38992826719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09217702ab551d031b242e8bd1a5011c/wimezuroxapudani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/semag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokoxirenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20775689906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd04982994b8f42c6f332037cdf6a0dc/fixujowesezuworasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bilateral+sacroiliac+joint+pain+icd+10PDF 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_off0000beb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEB0 15844 bytes
SHA-256: c3543e0d80a18fc248ee9be79c4c178dc8d86f54d0a4de8a3f669a39849f30db
font_01_sfnt_off0000e740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE740 10864 bytes
SHA-256: b1a224b71e3689c7e9b17448926b68b8caba39b3182ec7a46a2d6905ae1d4275
font_02_sfnt_off0001007d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1