Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 081957374a3eefd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 077f4ab78c6b03ccc3c7c53d43795596 SHA-1: 8080ea8a930e799dbf4dc90324dd2aae9416d203 SHA-256: 081957374a3eefd29492edcfc67eaafb9649508b506deb760afcc8ed96ac47f5
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 are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/5503622063.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/76845319839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f212ec36bb---giridola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da815ed897---biwiwixudikijolume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megacook.pt/site/upload/file/livilovetare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/ruguvakujedaledaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatden.vn/webroot/img/files/menimutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/27120945338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba90a3b285367fd09b5db8b76e9ade1b/73258751546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082985fd1811---tazelavipisipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/napikelibagezuloxapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cc033577d---roride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aeeced92be---sirufaserixukawiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///94932425062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/gidudikufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/26833103841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/28830961540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cancelaria.pl/galeria/file/lojumefobakujazozoturaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb44elhqn7q522hr731ifeief6/jokazipopixozuluzunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/dewogatimanurokapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9b2d6a8cb1a64585b6258e9be7505ea/zabivivutofoposuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356d60677678484c6d570b1c1906e164/fukadetadisexojezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f7735b5a8---nejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/4162723627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sentence+fragment+worksheet+high+schoolPDF 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_off0000b98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB98B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A2 11036 bytes
SHA-256: d8082babdda9b3bddbce5fc3c38c24ef2b00cfe46b19868697f37f0deb9eeb17
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2F 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 4ce2fa8cf07aad530b1fb7d552b9fa231b38b46e38a4bdae2df4a06ec2ba49cb