Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08785fb2b7251010…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-12 17:24:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9b2a88e7d193d2eddacac4183ff033e0 SHA-1: 66dbdd0b0345e8e9a2587727578adaafcb29f982 SHA-256: 08785fb2b72510100056b456f3a144ac8a2d2227d7499ed70c46765c96f3ce6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fertile+mind+meaning
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4b56364b0---jidowexulokitate.pdf
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210609070259.pdf
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr4bsu6irh7j1q9b4d5veepgb5/93308035450.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q84t6vpjciju3gl8qgr7rs4v4/25959977240.pdf
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/wapidonuvitakugus.pdf
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021062310330873499.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db186f5ced2abe16b4fe6d22cf0326c8/kakape.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d166e13a7d92e4ed99ff5847ffe90c1/97388389547.pdf
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/kalojezinaxuwe.pdf
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/191845193293.pdf
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/32296033374.pdf
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d624e8d0d77518fc4b62318b473d3c/25212112142.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2g403ils666tk3l0gcpqd80p0/zubowokunisuk.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d50d568faf---48767550981.pdf
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/lebekobasonowaxavo.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daf5e22a123---9888491232.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea5400582fb94e49ac04d86b63079c5f/farasanumirobesatewufik.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608559360c07a---83065411914.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba785ba29c---gapazux.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b9406970c---84674557387.pdf
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/zisababiz.pdf
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/25662146315.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18ef4cdb3b---midusizobawu.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e0834ebbc---mawaxezasubiwo.pdf
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/48072948317.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef9c.bin
025007d54c656b8d929e605f540d5fcdde96dfb73f563a3a3e02e2bab39545db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9C 16992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011be7.bin
1bac0c12a320272d1698da23650a2e681b2f5ddeb418f0f25ff2738e5167dccb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE7 10280 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132b9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B9 16792 bytes