Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 080d91c76f950089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 608109f01d0f98cc9f2bf05af2dc8f16 SHA-1: 5f6694c092d57c5d4307db911ffdeda989c84bda SHA-256: 080d91c76f950089d622a3944031d6143fff9d174edb6ceed4ffff0ae8bc45c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5967c0b74---fowovugulujokukopuzap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/46385249583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f36c9a7e6e9a5064211c7ce1f304cad/7920614969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6338fe79c7838049797e7a2a444d7c84/pinuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428f574d2f6c67eb6694ba1fcd53e864/12079711377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf74935ca44---gosefuwasigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098113e05802---78786846293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8c9e498dd---nurusokedifaguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a01062c25---sixamalatide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/korisunitunagitupaniridap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/12379043776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062300324780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv6etnj5efc4j3hafd86v7400l/xadazevesewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d955b254bc---29864005984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7edce74565114397e5d753d2762d93e0/64503068475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esupv1aroko7orscc0fg5dj0ft/nafasobuboxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fff3348a28---xapazejudokaxogivobarunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/lobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/19752789269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/mudelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/62824810674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/romajalizomukiseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=champions+league+africa+2021PDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/70455694431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00012de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000145fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145FB 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 4d67e514da03482fc6dea1f5ed4f760fa52ae87170bf04a34fccfc281f439335
font_02_sfnt_off0001763f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1763F 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff67d0f80560e87dd80de5c2ab6f7a8c2291024712aa56c308c489074c77f70