Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08b76c4cb9a607a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:19:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 7e97af3e5515f5d0985d3e03b983042a SHA-1: ade8d6b99c00ef3b48e5a7af5cf5bc3783f71074 SHA-256: 08b76c4cb9a607a4b95a64b33f2f18f793a9fb2bc19c312e05f2b8fa17766382
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS links points to a T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) attack pattern.

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+games+from+phone+on+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53067987589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7425454165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b9c1b74c03a9d7098af736d77f4a7f/wodisufidenixojamutoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tk-weld.com/images/library/File/1883051100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/luzamekakufejabonuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210911050449_o5kbie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/95498347049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i7pat7i0qrnhs30hn7ogje182/murowopogibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/98106419920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/buxoripetikiwujajowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinismbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dujomudezuzokujuradogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c9f76854c---63374677536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dupibupegisanewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategie-forex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafutolefukaxadusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28634871711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/56914312973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/68088511127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc75d649ab---94640643423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitrine-prof.com/files/nuduvazupodakovukenofufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/3916995707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/56133662142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/15182647190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/83900176288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54316888585.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_off0000fb65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11377 18240 bytes
SHA-256: cc6275f5b959e176a216c6c81ab3ce7eb017969dc7dfcf7c482b45db2df1e3e8
font_02_sfnt_off00014283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14283 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 70e4ac7624fda066f410fbe05dfb886045adb808fa180ac50deba7c7a058e925