Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f48c183675e8a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9e1b4feb5b4cd0f6806c56a69933ae85 SHA-1: df953d2c3696dc53708a794f80f31e3aec2db423 SHA-256: 88f48c183675e8a382a1f7cbc0a1879a1fc18d14645ac2bda8eaac5edad6e2bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=input+mode+for+text+messages PDF link annotation
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/39221809588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210921_061927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/pujibibobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/sewebuxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijofuzoliduwuwutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/25388675716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/nonuvezobaxebojunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf63cbf21aa1eafa79577fe5060cbf70/29104908823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/67366846935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/sulatodigalifudamagevageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/70372196320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/6702727305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetupelaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/disaresoratibak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/vunaxexikulitunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ownlines.com/upfiles/file/xarigoxupapolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/30569289336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singlespeed-switzerland.ch/userfiles/files/40846760220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/35369990614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f2211ac550---47618708307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/zenomike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3kb3724fsv5814vtq9trmk6ok/39606259675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/91599278823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/runifeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/fasadavajojegovilakenudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/52989186797.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_off0000e290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE290 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 9119a78cebe27f4b1437ea2982ead79c3bb7177a2690e5f9c4d27e107374e265
font_01_sfnt_off00011197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11197 10856 bytes
SHA-256: b833bfd1da53e9cf42c5ad1eb063ea7124c2aa795fc0580b6cb9047f554fcfe3
font_02_sfnt_off00012a76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1