Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c88db3a13cc36aa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:09:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 45f690c837062607c8ed0463c95b14a9 SHA-1: 016d3f02c3376daeaa13de2558f34f8c7d7b31b6 SHA-256: c88db3a13cc36aa1651b45e8ce12b7f9726392f0133e75b7cc797c33be5d6c00
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1553.005 Security Software Tampering

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_SECURITY_BYPASS' indicates the document instructs the user to disable security software, a common tactic in malicious documents. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a multi-stage attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/magusavivorirepas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46499331481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/xavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/dunagimodibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/sowikofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/sitideradozobesusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiohrestomatiya.ru/content/file/dirujiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613010087413a---solaxatoxapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tgvl.in/uploads/fck/files/97815180016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap5g3bsvdbfsafaeslmhn6sv52/43917117476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/163117725368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/kosebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///39722030082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/73420087860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-tsai.com/upload/files/94465409816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/40754117336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/6468083292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/338b686b6a7a8a0900ee8f8a91b576e2/74672233971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jemowegoxelivujekazirote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/151239418785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/73939951474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f5faca097---83476648607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140375b3091c---19980948362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/zawasopoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://035620126.tw/upload/greenkitchen/files/55190041721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexanaromepeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=off+campus+series+read+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_off0000ddff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFF 20100 bytes
SHA-256: 85103210619590c54dd9fc1737c00627db7f61e42a94f2a710d6ab8ac2fce6bb
font_01_sfnt_off00011202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11202 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A19 10808 bytes
SHA-256: b9ec65962092a453f9dbb018f1cd0f8355e2082b9ee6a01cf328b3274bb7eeb9