Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08ad9df7850e5ef2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:21:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5a88c9f49bc0633735d669f3f7071fe7 SHA-1: fb6f1fc189bf856b3bfc35e25167eaed71666de7 SHA-256: 08ad9df7850e5ef20d5d992c7cae7c180fa6edd91a312e37624503c383937514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=world+physical+map+blank PDF link annotation
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c187b9a8861---99441806226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamukuzujegopuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4cac23b39924b9f466de5cb4b4eaa38/98236371450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok201qfcnleidjnqhfjpdi641s/22277488038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/40277767157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a780b728abc---kubenifaterokiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/011030402581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/veworomefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/89307030925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/vijedivavexusaxipaxirujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5b36233a8---58475287231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/dazesoluregararuserilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210619193014_85jl07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8e675207c---68920404637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f956753557e3e4dde26aee80647de442/zisoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/59628659352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80907085c0bbd619368c91c0d54c9dc/78604438914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/jawubikuzoruluwederezina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3427ba35b---27503275403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/60890286069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6428c4d69bd0cfb6166075e27ee87742/zovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a54eec310d17e8cd79e4f0106b940858/79337742827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD476 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC88 16996 bytes
SHA-256: ac8575ab37115bb9b69af040372603f63cf02aac463b813fca32fc28c82acb83
font_02_sfnt_off000118d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D8 10888 bytes
SHA-256: a53b7cd9eee30824500ed5b4e98cf59ac73dd75437f7c7fefe9b26620bbce278