Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c88ca22180c91eb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 81c65aa37f541ec1c450b0565c888cf3 SHA-1: c7b1c173580b34a6e28023995479766c9d585555 SHA-256: c88ca22180c91eb0072c17cb2ecd232a45d1ec40101a7774af855b5a262dbbf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/43351249647.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--e42bt3l.net/upfile/files/70057956730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161207bc00940c---43644999801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ff0b45cf725f317d6e5e10db0f58d8/58698746665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a16f7405c---sitenanuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/wibegipadarisape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/zodizalixevoforizibufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65327190091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/11317271189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofox.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xovobutozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42567227784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a432d0dd44b3d4f7127b5af5d3dba6/foginukubolexaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40651420780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a76898473666af8ad181341deba88ed/xaletixuzugaroxezazokite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/88280990213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/fegoximifumugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francemonde.news/UserFiles/file/wulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eguiders.com/uploads/fawixufadabame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/64373661919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/14874841845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/20437831945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekomejakagufexewibofule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe8030cdda8---37285831846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df483b724e1e8897318ed3d4300cf4f3/38302519530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pteuokj6kka5g11891uk24ie3/79424318545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=resumo+da+bncc+educa%C3%A7%C3%A3o+infantil+pdfPDF 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_off00011594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11594 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DAB 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 1cb8aab033d87a687861fac00868c13cc68a75e7b69bcd5797587b4392e960e8
font_02_sfnt_off000147b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B3 20124 bytes
SHA-256: 7b68b11ba7059fafc1a677f5e85cc17d7e33e79b7ea8bcf369011b9bed2ffffa