Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08336c82494d0cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7d6896aed2179e8ba460f307714d2913 SHA-1: e10dac3c1b274cd1f81c4d12a46fd299f2bc3f57 SHA-256: 08336c82494d0cd77c0232662359432c66a0852656df3051f602814f0270943b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of these links, particularly those hosted on compromised CMS uploads, strongly supports an attack pattern involving directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609037335a1f8---ruwumufidosegowenatiwus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/66290007570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ji602tbe83k9fh9tbqej7ls4/45187135997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb41360ee11---59168708910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cc8d4e89df---refipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/tiboxaranabomajotenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798efda97c8---94087759027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cf5c8988f---vizite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0400b28957---21427415331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767d83867e4---jufitelelisepewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/34946822413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo6mnk3hn9ck6idsu1ets458om/33391271313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893ca77f209---nebasepefavapafakafuxenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odms4jlq4br7c4nvuf9dutfe1a/49333722902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.lastrada.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/jezudukifakokekasufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/garudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb3df509cf---togixalovuwoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/11738930209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fagagijizapofirodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/fazejedobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/55747989995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/21172344650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/zifipadesuzopomena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908ca848f52---bovuranonuzewetivadirovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaa538af0a---novomezabupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+app+to+play+android+games+on+pcPDF 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_off0000f22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22B 11024 bytes
SHA-256: f781fa690547505a6b6a3975bc8ae5fc3737db0abfe1e3fd1f66a1d67afe0574
font_01_sfnt_off00010bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BD 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 37618c0d24106828ac02a031f628b533c735fa2b123d0becf350ee585047563b