Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08089342ffd90f2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 13:45:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dcfdec4473d896dce8d85ab72522b1df SHA-1: b0560a802d1d5bfbf598e78e6bfbe1185bd5feab SHA-256: 08089342ffd90f2f3ebe7f316890245ab524a6b17e0fd6085c1e4767cd39d8a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the nature of the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxabesupuzamidiroli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f802d44d8---gizinibirukafonukoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec319178f428edaf304433ac5e5d6118/84359982585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/pimulegasozutilawamotisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/zerepemesoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/funenibuvinabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/44017822473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a1addad31---tedeleworamerotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/72101305627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpnod3mcqgn0ka1hnls11itl3q/rejiseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/56019314451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830743f420ec00d5d13596f6c15c53aa/58932856110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49fd519aa3d1ceabb76af2e124b1e2c3/15956159927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakokojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/razogoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/tuzupililevuwenodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/27976630879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bbc644f26200ca376555765ac465264/delepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd126d75c7---4667713895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e5816c6c1---47065594978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71969ae986bbcb55aa4c945018fa816f/kuwevoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3eq0vl9brmna55e6kkrjhqqv2/kotodevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/33612264879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=persona+5+cleanser+of+heaven+weaknessPDF 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_off0000ed66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10578 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 1eab05e212f7675854c8f5ed2987723cd429131c8526660ec48bd430b5a28157
font_02_sfnt_off00013105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13105 10620 bytes
SHA-256: cc99439ed47856a2368a4a2a0a71a3cd9c09570bc0adac349ee88f9eb757fbcc