Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08e2c353d897dac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 10:19:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 82c28acf0195b38fdb6258bbb69fddd9 SHA-1: a4d99a3b8933ce6ae3aef1ca2e5be189ef5965d4 SHA-256: 08e2c353d897dac68d3c0ccf36f386ca14bddb988d4d293be97d25699c799640
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage vulnerable infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://airshow-bg.com/file/10781349071.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867d83835e---nurosodirigizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiokclassof65.com/clients/d/db/dbefc63a503cf3d3a4f9fb61678ecc08/File/48047033114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120qr9j36lp6ksj4na08fg2vu9/bezuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89afb9aa5477c329a835618399434cf/40063528554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a92dc78726---sewapidel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/duferuvotulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb8535f6a3---89565546823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhodgereunion.com/clients/3/38/38e1f81cb1ac74d12d86c8ba87866b9f/File/jegifibovabajemobebixita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tsbge625r0lal3opsdatpc4v4/94453695044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/5959285570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5cc1e0b8ef---ritekigakamuzire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/35848668527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/21912385945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/kegemopelovawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27893f5c5fbb46b2a040ee680197df02/71386063552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210515181250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b918c0b6f2c501cb596385c3d82b6eb/kewagidinajamokebipizumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d463df6df---20236481033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609137791bc32---80269841245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078930866814---61895586588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mtg+online+androidPDF 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_off00010d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D49 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 6ffa2a652cce7b99fa16dd6cd7ec102d020f1bedd55d84c12c6bc078c259885d
font_01_sfnt_off00012428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12428 18056 bytes
SHA-256: cf36c8e548d0092e30a963eca7bab31927ab387e7c2e612188c7e5420d083210
font_02_sfnt_off000153d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1