Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 081bda8be33369b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 04:32:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ee4309e4114bee97103d96a90d4d15a4 SHA-1: bf114d306e8ba1576762ddc9757d03935a80b8ee SHA-256: 081bda8be33369b7fc12aed0f32e39216e5c0f4bbdfcefdaea3c419562ce2b2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts, consistent with a spearphishing attachment delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=randomizers+for+games PDF link annotation
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c54495ccb3b---lurejavuzepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/poruxirujakaxodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4755e2a308ef6e488ed295a1bfa825a1/39191695637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae2f040693---99962032937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/28349904247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/25633929835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/27550038922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba62503d95b58c8189c2fe85ce323718/denetaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bfad04f0---woxapojoneseduvubagesoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/76824085608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092607eb0470---sawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f0048b399---48680058238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b6495515e0e1b3d54c55a84ae8eab3/befomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cbcb38418---53188309290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rme8ufh6uenbjf5nt0evhrjump/tiriwatamaruguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33512973950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sme1970reunion.com/clients/7/78/786f1e38e9ed540b4a7d4f5dbcc09398/File/vekesurosesosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/77051078912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/35196184018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/75590585617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/57821777814.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_off0000f388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF388 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 3849e5ef4724f07b89855b460ad4670ac8d55be1d0013e750a423b40b6713b3e
font_01_sfnt_off00011f73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F73 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 747a9b989c446fc9b3e7315e3ab849d461e5c570b0e72732688f3b9c96d51300
font_02_sfnt_off000137a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1