Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08b51d4b38767f49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:23:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2880e7b455663fc9f855c1cfefcf5bf9 SHA-1: 6e4c95caa45c733c0958630d2294cb62a31a2a3b SHA-256: 08b51d4b38767f4906867337275ef304598f886183cb174d1e0168d8bc99dad8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/papaguzowifudita.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c68ea80bfe4f89af04184bb2e9ac05f/66875477361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b60a559481119ba387b2b9d70fd2ce1/34133118157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e63b0d235ea---60746176165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210704061628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/180351176446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndc-group.ru/uploads/files/kozilorasadigoxabelukiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c385037218902691c2adf5511c67b1f/96792674118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/zoripolifomazoxobuzigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1960.com/clients/1/17/17c242f0968dc4bce059666b43fbd075/File/58648774972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20307721510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gusifmqimla0n4jibo4dn7p2l6/28266288000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/wovufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/14931728636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19bcbcffe8902ef2c7f131c77ae518a5/13933526214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5acc5a4485---87712351416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/96674645846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/70217103283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myconnect-thailand.com/image/upload/File/78790910663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ccad74cfa6---26301579346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4100a0a8f6---86842322435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/63130506325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads/files/202108160147567530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b8eaccf29---27474247884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+document+pdf+en+word+gratuit+en+lignePDF 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_off0000f2b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B5 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 771d3229f22ff7ca6dc6cca34a79b257dd6749fd039da8c0e1068214309b2654
font_01_sfnt_off00010c63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C63 19624 bytes
SHA-256: b2e235c5d6e1c6c883ec18e7db735b8783e0f87d9c6f99f5e130e94ee74de27d
font_02_sfnt_off00013dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1