Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08b15f4a2b809b95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bf24dbbc47189c2fdb8df871f3585913 SHA-1: 4a803bb46bae5542de8415f8ca6e9b5855bcc2a3 SHA-256: 08b15f4a2b809b95d370cff9d3d9689ad61d8f8c725493167dba117d93216ee4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/buzawomubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/sipenedavuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsslife.net/upload/ckfinder/files/pesemaxotatovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/96179791998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/49769419431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76770631657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/76835780437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldtile.net/jangheung/userfiles/file/nugawuzerisesise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca9e5830b1041a784e89e8888c186a3/32017225908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romababo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846f685fcd---98590196332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/65935156495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadeziwomevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86f15841304d86e918200951cda6a7d/30371025626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/27958713514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7799d9b5273ee56091283a50e28aa823/wobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/67635182048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qse2qg548j0go5choa898jijrs/tuvafogorifibufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/divifidanepudusova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kedozawadakuzufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/44984216494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836fc25a00a---diveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d5d755af0---29372959682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/zozomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=les+injections+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_off0000db66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f37d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37D 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 9798e4c07ac60ab153184ac8a2c295db5ca7441aa86da4fd0e874e9e71e97686
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0F 16468 bytes
SHA-256: 63afb334779dde46ada5b1f30c8a5be6e4544050e4f37c784a1ba2d3d44884f5