Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08b2d321765f9c8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b2c62f390a36819818e38fbd6d7a90da SHA-1: 45b306543cf5eaf38ae10ed48c52461a05b886b7 SHA-256: 08b2d321765f9c8b4547e33c745493379a52e56b991f1caf91c11248b5874e53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is flagged as a link farm, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=herramientas+manuales+y+electricas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cjmjwarrickhudsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/9b/9be434dcd9982d5451de1b36a82eb828/File/90021956221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c967cfd95---61300759525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210720_1685167A81A629D0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/lipoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3u7vfma0eg4c2810i20lsqbi7/dilomebujibivosewera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee34373a047---97070152656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/69329056614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pipeguvifobaxorenonebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe38cec19b6d35b77a0261138821660/63470162598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/5839289058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/5966345107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341c6499b439c3f3caa2a04565da067c/ruraxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71b80d84ae---mebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ucps9cckd3g3urhf05hrq1l01/lanufenugesotanuxube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/92925716079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611db6c994b53---98840900052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/goxowibolemuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--brneneskontor-landsforening-b0c.dk/userfiles/file/xumemezibujedawiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/mukexopafotasulogozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5hss7hokekk45a7m7hbqoen82/nunafire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/40555445713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607928ca508c6---wugozadajebodume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/buwajimepuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royal-pizza.eu/files/file/nubesofaterelufigidu.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_off0000d438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD438 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 7ec4b0a9c9c31183063f0bbae0bc0badba0b3778fa3ab5ba9b82fdcd8e236648
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 2cfaaaa8b22399516857ff519c7b1aa459f1e2ffb417c423cdf3a412a6bfd317
font_02_sfnt_off00011add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1