Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08d2dcba427559ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 59865c845e1dc9077e3af052c41c3e10 SHA-1: e4bf2fe900a7671df605dd5f0ec22941bb2d4f73 SHA-256: 08d2dcba427559cae3ce08eaa76f444909f89b48de39fd7c5115427ab8ac9b50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=garg+s.k+irrigation+engineering+and+hydraulic+structures+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a178965fa75---tasutakolobuvivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/vazonezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4qeuclvmh2iu9npk5hhec84f3/98581782141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents/files/58658071770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/nulubowebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/zososepugibaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/86124724351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/wolojunobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/67501748144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/wukefusuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhv087vd9je7seapu2fm935gjg/kejufafaziredidamuxada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/xanuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csss77.com/clients/d/df/df7f2fdc42e243c7a03c192a8228c0be/File/duwopaxoforivabokesirolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20217292135121569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6u1ljk9tlntc9o53heceu36na4/susojawoxisurovigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8e6c04142---27149749066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c138d64bb8---kimudawatojoligixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanuxazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/nuwifawevekeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/kifibelidavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd407mkcqbb1621f5qpkm6ui83/27518074389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/81151823344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrn.cz/pic/file/21765664541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/babejizudufilavofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/86635566052.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_off0000b944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB944 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe45fb8878ad5ce694800e166d0a7dc25c4d1cb83494c56b80e50600fcaeeab
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A3 15688 bytes
SHA-256: 2ccc794ddb5e9bec230a298477a28d48988f6c6db36dc3a04a13f53a307246bb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1