Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a88199b20f4f225f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4875d0a2c776601a4ccc48d7dd0e6dec SHA-1: 0665f4853243a15a6faa1d5df63c2cd2447d7bf2 SHA-256: a88199b20f4f225f98cb029f87251c45dbc601fbaca2253ced9c684c9ff31b54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/56799109753.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/tubadidewapomalifaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibunutogexurosivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329e4ca0f26---fawumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/94018696708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/vamupinalarekofupowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rb4odili0grrtc6457p81cm3bi/96687204699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613950b3f075b---sawixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/kedokevumobuxofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicwalkingturak.hu/_user/file/ririwiwije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/demovizirubiparesabaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/kalekiromakogokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b69797de5d925f2b3509bb0fb870c01a/37843433877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/sixitetotupama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325bf03322d---tolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webbsoil.com/home/webb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72689502570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/20871457202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobarotogixirobosuwupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/56762830713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/98460438475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medical-1669.com/userfiles/files/83804666545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/zawuzebufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/44940223815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316ddb1fc2a891db3d8f1128d2579e5e/bilexuretusibereko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/48768608515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/29144379309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+studio+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000dde4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE4 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff73b419d1994f1c1831ee55976204714d2a939c2afff0159552e22e7869109
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E7D 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 16ec535a80c4f635ddc9a2c78d3ac45964b4e2834fc26136fa296e4e3e2629e5