Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08b4cda2d7a55331…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4c104d2765485aabceb1c4ba32ec05fd SHA-1: fa1fd596128c75f7ab257e0e74dd98c0d6e78092 SHA-256: 08b4cda2d7a5533140cbee5b6b36560c537dc7d7c53d842ac736486ff3d23417
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest a phishing or content-luring attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/nujakutelomenotazetejafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/febenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc39e146662---45928672628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/zajudijibigakujised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210531081716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vev4jff5dnua28hmvkavo90qh4/18680721148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424497fa01---donedibatomafawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9766a3ee3f---8844991461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/28472774945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/82658576558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4098f21a09---bebopuxipakejadiwavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/gezirukepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/rugududemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inglewoodreunion.com/clients/68690/File/zulogifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b2929ee136---27996719247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/wujulojusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/26025569585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb46229925e---66405901899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611018d4550b5---17828886260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/nurezitejitafotavorarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/897d256d5c9db353cbde214a6c983f78/58414624692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/tamalomemaxikamajugegavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/sumezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=democracy+worksheets+year+4PDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e90a306c3---32228683355.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_off0000c082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC082 17688 bytes
SHA-256: c76dda7c353532820b6bce4a09c5fec8a3d8af30923f1310bdce109f35d59569
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE71 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 219bde1efa6c04f5f911a8d8e733d0a35c3d525a8c43f5d4fd9b005713a5fa1e
font_02_sfnt_off000106e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1