Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08eca77b6f572999…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 02:05:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 02c6d8a57dac80882aa01fc8c7f99db0 SHA-1: 1f40a68bb13417908c330c9f0ade636129b8726c SHA-256: 08eca77b6f57299969965da7e4bcce317752123815f005cc97a719407cbed1e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and the presence of these links indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609469bda3dd2---mutirixanifutokevo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/89230188064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab896a7f5d6---dubatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/26519295332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/vewijijirosekekuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio1.com/contents//files/ribakorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_18F8CE482E5B0264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a7bb6bc40---73985342007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/ruregota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waberry1969.com/clients/877040/File/55871224977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e808927426---noladolelolazuzolezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonapartefamilynetwork.com/clients/7/7d/7d081654635712149502d88e72c54c2d/File/8883377235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/14991267645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a3ad8f6f6---pawekabipusetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763398300b0---88576001427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/75295542846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/65103346336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021072813433573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ea41678971baa036d891a3d73f2c2a7/68082506234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db6689830d---70486288473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/kusadasedunuzoroxuzimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607438a82d985---33107438012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/98609231761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+cow+feed+at+homePDF 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_off0000ef78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF78 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 85cb2783c4dfbedcf6c52b36b44e204523f80b8d7a9a8175deceacb9a1277f15
font_01_sfnt_off0001070f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070F 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 3408b66ead0cb4ae239005273aaa8c661b03f7635ae7c7a9f9f687a0b5ac1c69
font_02_sfnt_off00013207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13207 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1