Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08a3a7ca13420511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:11:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e04764e40061f80511098974dfb15514 SHA-1: 99ce1401c0ddb31c229b7ef9ce8856c4264f691c SHA-256: 08a3a7ca134205113259ec121167e3bacace964346ad2ed776d84e27466d5e7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirm the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/sozove.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jpbullies.com/clients/2/2c/2c827f09d77a589c2c5c7da8c033a3f4/File/salodozapomugokebirorur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/nejulofufubovimebipaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/72987165203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a17fcaedd232cae304322b38b9f1b83/wubuvawupojunuwonibatowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroi-sistema.ru/img/72317561430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025de32171c31ba2f29a9551ab844d6b/33750468754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/96653515413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/66763833084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/11242248495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d28a222a---71346871548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/jijelidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/jazaxopadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/13310213051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/piwovuvopufimebemosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210813_DFA0CB18C0346B72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tewipadefuxovaroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66aedd7248---39945101752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/18577905753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/55486417679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121b455a9c25---bitemokonafumozefivozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://therealmccoyfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f9/f9ea119420dddc0cc5ac7622830b9f68/File/vavoralusijexekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/jokomemimamerofexokovaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=enfermedades+autoinmunes+del+higado+pdfPDF 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_off0000e977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE977 20640 bytes
SHA-256: bc61f972e7c258afdaba3a1ea9710ccb8abb42d2409f92dbc80801e57478aedb
font_01_sfnt_off00011e0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0F 11028 bytes
SHA-256: ffb3ed93c80aaef4c5033ab0197aec5227ca10dbbecb0f935609f4b186caa387
font_02_sfnt_off00013749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13749 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1