Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08bf365157f471da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:37:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9f7a001d24ae74dcc915e929c2ffc178 SHA-1: 251c33e10a4a70e36c83279a450374d140179684 SHA-256: 08bf365157f471da33d196e12bb1ad695f7bcab3b5365a4b81c433bd9dd471ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to host malicious content or facilitate phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=take+account+in
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fai4qsmuib1t63o81vsihu2686/52845074509.pdf
    • http://petersonspann.com/clients/3/32/32c4b2f41fa698b5b938e848169c8dcb/File/fuveg.pdf
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/6418477187.pdf
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084130937e2c---58848306181.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904bd10c3f2---pavujugaxejutosu.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/74171510233.pdf
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/947d357cb65017eb4d131760efce06f5/ponirexorikuwazilobij.pdf
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/44961980815.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/ragefejasosopenexonuwene.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d211ea5fde---22683137356.pdf
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wumegiwuguporegarupa.pdf
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/wilitezozujarunan.pdf
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3sghi5tiahpu3746hot4d80pp1/naxenevokokider.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e96818a30---gevole.pdf
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/73443021878.pdf
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhajoqmrae30ve5oeqm71oaio9/55419744900.pdf
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f1047f239cdb3df22bc52ba47f121f8/81362937583.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607569017a02a---sumuvifab.pdf
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e427fd1f472296ed351b9c9bb436987/50778649044.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cv4b5spmv9eorj5n9ipcd4d9lk/tigeb.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0usj8k54juekf4v4rnhf4eicn/xobupezinetexa.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca04.bin
b5e68edd77b03fc667176e30477f7d1028b3a63bfffbe732a9ee85c91cbc1af7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA04 10064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e098.bin
f24859f719720b0b1723fcd27d409a2171f60508733466eb3a9744074dd46163
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE098 17728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE9 16792 bytes