Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08e4793681230233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 12:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a566d19cdd43b8a09c89c108edca0a37 SHA-1: bde6225fe4e6a70e767a62af28594f72df6a6ad7 SHA-256: 08e4793681230233e8e7a2c69144594bcaae7d8dec6b0bdd52b33d3bedec6613
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bd89c2dd9a---dilafep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077882aab185---61855262082.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210722234132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/10522087101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b080d9d3812---80436480219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xizesudevawonisijemomemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119fa7f34282---lurudafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b13f820fad---nufufavewixikedonaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec515547922---likewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbc44a969d0f3500f0bf359b6a8cbb2/didibanilogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagubifura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/wekevuwobezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa9a6a57eb---3522877448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/277559808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949b431c0b4---xodinuzumuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etnorom.hu/pictures/fabotofukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/85220766522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7389896fce---togojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210603195525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyout8.com/asset/uploads/files/jozalopawofedekaledavuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/14365628170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=oc+transported+into+star+wars+fanfictionPDF 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
stream_008_off00012b25.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12B25 18896 bytes
SHA-256: b61ba805e0b0e04e5e0cd30537cfe91b162c9f2279dc2a049822d1191a242401
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5D 10680 bytes
SHA-256: d86be5ebdb31bb627503565d95d5014867ddb14530580695a5c4b37b01d64ced
font_01_sfnt_off00011313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11313 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1