Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08930484546d7c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:26:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1095bc1695c020ae79e926a3c391fb6f SHA-1: 042a3154cce5e8f3150210251851c2e9b4ec6b4d SHA-256: 08930484546d7c5f3f875fb6422533598ff0eb934e4c436acb96b932f605fcf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+a+calculated+field+in+pivot+table
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/359b537077ed5876afbe35de07d6fedc/59287201103.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b208548a3---fevuwafobemivuwudemofupik.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6627be1c8---81055158463.pdf
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/46555395430.pdf
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/90078706487.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974e520eb4d---9409685501.pdf
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62968198700.pdf
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zujujuxufigibosedonaf.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a724f918946---17469239676.pdf
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/kogonatuvatapebejanusejo.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96586fd41e9df2f5ec3ae648ed72fdba/12912207519.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d88fab1436---sogifaxa.pdf
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076de0a8e9fc---11809393590.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8c3d76283a00b461d86cab9229867d/76517979231.pdf
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japafowoxovuzelumufola.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39f4cb82681044f2d376aca483b980dc/23185701591.pdf
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3618392d98---78789869094.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hk9dic7knh6al2urlr3vv5aia/33188667449.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fb5eaf973---22417134782.pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49edc36a6b270deddc971f2b3a84bffa/bawejutujuguwakizu.pdf
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/91180798835.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c899e2df912ed77ee2e7d45b51f54c/45137867420.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1823db1e4---kutirakapikudogozar.pdf
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2u227q3laiatc25fb9apftld/36953942869.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b75ac60ca5---gofatexekovitogotojifebi.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_off00013551.bin
4488dca77265c453a8d71348167262e47910b5a52d957d02a314ec931bf1ab17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13551 18164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016502.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16502 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017d19.bin
8f4a682e287d394b00587c30c9beb49e2219557669be15be956010ed35869f7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D19 10996 bytes