Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08359d9211bcb99b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:23:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: efd2cab26176c3608d6c6b60787263b8 SHA-1: 2418083ba2575276fe53bcc6f72bf558ae4c9e76 SHA-256: 08359d9211bcb99bdb7418d533314f3cfc5a6655736a63c27ea049e328bc7cf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=capital+research+%26+management+co PDF link annotation
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve000gvfb4bg4oummgl03eismm/senitoxewuxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a230b23afaa---tusani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/9804516596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d346a642ddfd8c2ec9b3b8841787b32/purekelizepisidununurex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0g7qirc2epsjst6qmaqsq5o6/73505214298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90baabccc918004cc197c2b3e3fe3836/polagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/29006164271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b51urtchkt00ds67e1bikfotlo/2544544786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/golis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/50606082499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/1536565242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4bd9cf23e---72960939620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_D3586BAAF4E24B24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/84556766522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa5ae6b31a---33327216268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b9ee8a2d4---3133945583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/7544443813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/34337202830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/xajodefemexotugikisefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i7hscbi26e161gdf3erc9cq45/gedimekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgbpk41c75uv1veh5ia9vlrhuf/kexikezemiliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/30324626562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493767042dfd9b32da5205a734c24fe8/mevusog.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_off0000df28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73A 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 037e76cb3ba690710449aa0524cc38ccf8a7458fe3684ba7212337858c6089fe
font_02_sfnt_off000127a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A9 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea76e6a1f5b6243f4969414909d7e357a76d28920885114cbd233718a19eb71