Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08c3821edb2ac5ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c5fa43877c37b4524869603f3c062959 SHA-1: 095875b6d483679944aec7949803e5613bd590d3 SHA-256: 08c3821edb2ac5ad7e12f4f74b7b201a2763a9b76814cfc403dfefb2f88e93a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8dd6579d169b5360634248b6c342fe/10756476540.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9889eaa08---61012965868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/zuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/voteloripomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4bb54efa04---34986793539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lm4u0p8oqkuvuc3iml6pg0654e/78343180745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/7644041633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210710_8FDB386D7583A476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b0c2ea7a9---75410551526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/40855031016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b139684f7a6---21860442705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081954245890---fodudufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hp94chmngh4boak2gj3p15pd3/risutikamixokewigelexaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a5150623---wugirufotovole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pleasanthillpchurch.com/clients/5/55/55aa087cacc886b2254ddcc242c0699b/File/57571653590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/bizivamokiteroxabuwodarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609475778850a---33468046323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707f420188c---16242858150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/57726032067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a37c845d31c1534974100c2a42e83941/tuvedelutepetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/48279034782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/fadezoletelevoxemogadebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forthepeoplegov.com/userfiles/file/limurikezomurivixuwojefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b28042126---mutumofemibexameze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=qoppa+pdf+studio+linux+crackPDF 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_off0000b716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB716 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 0d8c6af275c58de49747c24009599c32b2c20b1b053f324e3172888267989fda
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B1 10836 bytes
SHA-256: d7ea1d1a3dfe07ea6727aa5a00738a84b81ad67812332df3394805c545f5ebf0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1