Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f8ebd038da03d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-10-15 23:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5f25b9b1b58b45c195917a38d843afeb SHA-1: bbb030665afabcb480f7dc83861ad1cf66657c3e SHA-256: 88f8ebd038da03d317f1f7e8d6dc804c9dcd4ddbb494dbf859172ba99ab38fca
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external files, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score further indicate malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a phishing and trojan distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://dhf-china.com/d/files/75288953595.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/63200434655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escalierdurire.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68126705914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/xupaxoritiravapogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozosibaxuvesajatifalijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615d3c4332d26---46958752080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.com/file/43391804727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/vowesotokepivawisijuzanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16165e098a2bf8---25936820887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/546489477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yung-shun.com/userfiles/file/kokinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/23439931690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/puvowaguwoloremamefube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e30102a7c957e00eb3862614155ff4/79689485109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/bizoguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunecharts.com/userfiles/file/wugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-marche.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusedivezunazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/18399149485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijimimiwedibasimomox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210925_103027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/nenilemutapirawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/50122334714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/RhDyTiV0TgQ/uplcv?utm_term=subway+surfers+for+pc+free+download+zip+filePDF 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_off0000dbf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF409 11092 bytes
SHA-256: af35ea4a628c3d4ee6d3769706675be40d3f89ae49d9d9e3aa33d5333c66b15c
font_02_sfnt_off00010dda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DDA 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 28e6918f54a856b02501b74093a97a43d0a3a52d41d4010381de5a6540668682