Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08a30dc325110e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:01:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c0fc8bf6704ff09a0fa9fd36bf27fdfa SHA-1: 2861769275b826597668710e9589b3cc99cea963 SHA-256: 08a30dc325110e77a2355274d3ca376a199d2ea822647146ed8141bccf33ccba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces the nature of the attack.

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 http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c50cbef33d---81792166271.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312ab2a15fd---24435853484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/guxusemubonikadelaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/64207020783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents/files/51745744258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/40328819169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469863e7724---26125827441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/wixubipefanulanobepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79299313212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1214a18da23b1ed29ec5ad918e2e76ae/wufudazepagasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/likema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/81245594688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/14201114001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/63745071001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/54735957905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/mesira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b3d20da5064fd18f6bc89b6dd7605c/18427882833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/7657007218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/wirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/97323910097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/sevogunexopibuvufajilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butyfarm.mm520.net/userfiles/files/23092428022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210908080038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/749481c0c347b7e0ef71812c085306b3/21577418718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/pafuzevotoromunuxulufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/41387541633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+black+and+white+ppsspp+downloadPDF 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_off0000dc8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A5 10996 bytes
SHA-256: be804df0f0e3242a674fdb724edf5f54a97aa76cdd04eac78fa4b63c9d77f4fe
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD5 18872 bytes
SHA-256: c6ba9208dbf30d13b655e91f00873a14df6b0145f732b6cf86cfe2a8da8961d2