Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88cc1294c7ffbf55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:16:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d643e0241c91f6c7ec1a2530e2d2cb36 SHA-1: b2982c2a244fa494a7a066c0773392304a8df68c SHA-256: 88cc1294c7ffbf55b8a09d05635de96cc413d5bcca9cb167a8ef9395043e7c61
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further support a malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/19287939205.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skikk.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/9473197081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/6185199676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/nuruxesifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b907c1e4a01---jokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/files/feruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/gipofixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d058531b8---84323352570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/26762961614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/97920125884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b778c2a2070---37343246354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fa8445dc7---fipojuvibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a541c7895---28281317170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0b0b40f0f---50916090250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774985894d5---dufibetejufezokogisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballard1966.com/clients/22636/File/66836840663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/96042465227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce58782337---87548117319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakatka.com/files/file/zuwipopixiratotabufado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/kositulumudewajasiribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq364rbl818t9r10ttujdscuun/53365714475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d70a09a04350554ad205fef527d27c/sabudelezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+document+into+word+onlinePDF 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_off0000de4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4E 17796 bytes
SHA-256: b7307e5af8df321d3ba5206a6ca4651a0ef0727847f63d29ca6ad077904f4968
font_01_sfnt_off00010c3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3B 10736 bytes
SHA-256: fb06a15c4f46d661053d6daa0fe889e61a384fe41c52ba1789f3b8a07d0d1b2c
font_02_sfnt_off000124f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1