Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08dd3a8d274d2174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 11:47:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 75c82564fb557f96ec3a6193e2740781 SHA-1: fec3ebaf368ea6f43e5eb084da84c9e7bc982567 SHA-256: 08dd3a8d274d217478fa84cf7f4a055e454d9caa180fbf9f458cd8866c884442
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be directing users to malicious content or phishing pages, leveraging a common tactic of embedding numerous links within a seemingly innocuous document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linear+programming+word+problems+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825bb2f31db5addfe37f3062a459c677/mavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/zizexeriwedusanuloxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9a59265c02---liribavuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e30bbba416---bolerekevosazalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa826e05108549d5c38e95de74de9ab/63806519386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85e6eab75a---27307414990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608048e2149e7---favoguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/43624926532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/xonotosojesozesumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36c8755a76---besuxezimomaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b219cec95b---66230259960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf005aa0c1f---39120171442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608687676c736---xijiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef6c0540e0---24586872177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/24899875596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/65624229350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609542abd3159---xovesuredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e5405e955178f4103a66d85ead0544/84523911124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/75701033785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be11913f38a---76647846111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efde2f1dbd2899fe671061a396d6f844/guzosarabuxapuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/92072405685.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D6 11116 bytes
SHA-256: b2dbb4353131449caaa3b13a7d9146b39968b70361e9c99190e75a65e5e2906a
font_01_sfnt_off00011225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11225 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_02_sfnt_off00012756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12756 17392 bytes
SHA-256: f42acc650b535a32bf5013d4f6b8b597a539324eca6ca2236ebd5214d09f065d
font_03_sfnt_off000154e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1