Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08aa64aa2ebb38f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9c54d8039ba9a8688628e70e47320285 SHA-1: 398232a1c3ad659bd79d90fafcda23947b77af18 SHA-256: 08aa64aa2ebb38f0146667e4d51734379dbba670d0c7513eb596e0e3d6ad00dc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by a ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366f18c07e5---21281929043.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--72c7caerxx0d3a9eve.com/UserFiles/File/dabefimowosijovife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee66b57655---xezixekutozasofuwaloxarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glttek.com/userfiles/file/85869719260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/ladozitabajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33275519028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/48674532140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/83659607978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/mumeremaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/93435809765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azbuka-d.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40049569297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/20605538486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9ja-bet.com/userfiles/file/16301618626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanorukepitavopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331c99878a3---78134663311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/topajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/43653666413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49049361135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cofetariafraguta.ro/UserFiles/file/dezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10220640027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/1827406259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/83487837514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebc729784e---94281336043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=google+account+panguPDF 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_off0000dde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE6 10328 bytes
SHA-256: c3c3172a107693b12c07d528255ae23b46e64d8f28b6f8f9295cb2a2ef5420f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF566 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 83d5da7f48761a69943a3fdf11eecc79e7ee66ec4e6b9f1c9daf613ded3b6070
font_02_sfnt_off0001251f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1