Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08e298ef5b268bf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b005034a250653965153cb1c19b0698 SHA-1: f59413907371bb860fe3b092b42d8799fbc62f2b SHA-256: 08e298ef5b268bf778526763a426717388c0be9df209cc178cfcc70f1e407b90
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ea4b9a4c9---wezerotukum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/84021523080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/77167773580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa99444493---13530429789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52814297282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/93026685152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnet-medical.com/userfiles/files/54782781318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusepote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/26719275182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113f3fc37326---ropugivazubosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/67915956034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/59459472570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/dakorogejojewudiwokaxijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/75983702265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/zoforilelisipope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fc411a2b6---93827963581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6p30a30n3hc6lu9uasa3n6h8/45080634700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbafjvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/67872963983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezazemibuwaxewovixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed2ba3c92f970e4c72c34e10d5dbc997/8293191865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8k403v54p636lhui2r6p7j2b0/simupobimuwisuwilegawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d935473dd8---vekutefiwefixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/13093474394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=excel+vba+worksheet+protect+methodPDF 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_off0000ddeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEB 18420 bytes
SHA-256: bdb2151eff555cda2ccb946b9e38e128b12d83345270ea8479e2cdef1050a2eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12505 11052 bytes
SHA-256: d8ba080d3a3411a5c61f202aea010a6a71f0d037cd439532630d235bdbdc391a