Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08a990e5300d23b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-08-28 02:14:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 39e4e7db57c9608ed4d021aa7b7f043d SHA-1: 5f73cc77c0518030a1249258adc14981a80e3ff2 SHA-256: 08a990e5300d23b6752dfa6fdce8d20aa1811b5eb220abd7096f5b3b1172cd91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable infrastructure. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users through a series of links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodeluxebipow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3cdfcbb69---41509663339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d214ee18c381172f038f5b732b0d36e/96786327378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4464c091cb---16785848770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42f410819c---sizikatunemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/jonelovubewumixalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2f56136425d44894d47b84ea9ecf64/safujogemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be80f4cd81df07eb7bbb5ca80afe1ecd/desem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11359470731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/fekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6568c88f9ce5b62ac18b004ca927e2fb/8908832642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/koxogemevarazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/fitidexubibagubuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufomilajuwarorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609095f63c47a---82998703757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/jalekaboweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/josegafonuvemiralof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35a65d55c8---2865033887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608714a42da77---nudami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/tabonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8569235106e086f6c378205a3122548/73365387876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9f3324f48---bezujadoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=1000+spin+coin+masterPDF 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_off0000b873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB873 15496 bytes
SHA-256: 724249c4f41a2e740b7b9d01f00879c6a244baccd159aac6447f6be7ff48fa3d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE6 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 7429d21bde6f0459f7b0967c5b020e9312f19984e32850b76e37fdb8ae0dc126
font_02_sfnt_off0000f802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF802 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1