Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08286f3e8f89f79a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7a92deb0675ee71d698ce4f850d5eeed SHA-1: f1054252cc6e65ce80cd3dbd003d14fc5723a8cf SHA-256: 08286f3e8f89f79ae93bdb451b92884139de52fbc3e9fda5441903c7188d01d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or for SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/xifesinubadipigomijuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobenijinukesudofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db40269fbd236aa21c4442abc68560ab/jumapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f8e6d3e417850003718f105fb7a8de/74680344244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f3m5o9pgghf7e0ha95qfsh3v/jibigavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/91859722926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/63020617936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drwatsonsr.com/clients/2/2b/2b9a0cf27321ceab3a47fbd10bf94d34/File/75859767089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ea1071c4b48bd3f9ca438b16c17c9f/38763429504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee900e015bdea5210994c42b1b9ccc68/82905227072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdfb81abcf---40130032919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/lareguzadonukadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608963a4e5e2c---vavitulusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050213085273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3j64qdugdsr5scgs4ckipqnro/fividupidaxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210605060542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3vl89a40jk264mj40k9mrpuv5/nekasipemobuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euioje63ia2k2h0dqhv3nearg5/paloroxetefara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bee6c22d0---92471719463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9dc40aec1499377cf3b89e72d6f087e/rusalowozowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5c1551d0307caf3e0a442ac09249ea3/wuwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/36535628061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=short+luteal+phase+after+miscarriagePDF 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_off0000d577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD577 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED89 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 3616f0add76cb3991ffd55b5b39133788698521a78c2506ec9518f22658f00f8
font_02_sfnt_off00011981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11981 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 99a50f61c6aeeda3082fc4b398f78c53af3f168630edc595d970f1556adb14ce