Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e88a758c7668f2e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 14f70d0b62273ab7c9e44e3e28d179ea SHA-1: fbc8a2606cb52b749fa9bfcc976bcc1bacf384f8 SHA-256: e88a758c7668f2e08676c5ebfa6759c33e844ddf8a221259a8d7b8f7de93d9b9
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and employs SEO-like tactics, including UTM parameters, to direct users to potentially compromised websites. Heuristics indicate a link farm structure and a high ML score for maliciousness, consistent with phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/rudizowawubuxulij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/89452001621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161425352b92e5---74521646331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ffql8jsn4qfv8cgesrvklup4n/7389405541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/89388240249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topiligumofupidakijorej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtl.in/uploads/userfiles/file/file/xaxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverhouse.at/pcms/content/file/jalorulura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/zevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630503087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/81608270974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents/files/nomadakugilivekamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/55616720426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.douggoodkin.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4662302554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/xuzubiwokexorexisive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ae3cb6a15---34533989986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ons-station.com/editor_upload/file/3475105876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/15139709687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56368162633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/vuwedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/sasoxapirixorafiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210902_151336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/fatemabebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=oddworld+stranger%27s+wrath+modPDF 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_off0000d0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BF 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 494af758e734e526c07066f04d87fff2f4e041c3868565c4b7cb96fc58e8f64f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10140 18672 bytes
SHA-256: f757e363357df25b239df87af803b4ef3344ddf833ac6426b2da8401cf8e6460