Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08ed56107e3f1f4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 23:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ae07a2e69111c8a96c1ea1556b70fd26 SHA-1: b71a490bb0f1e63e953a34ccabdd58b42df3e73b SHA-256: 08ed56107e3f1f4e2155ca0d590a4cb0d3b5bcdd64c6130dfb17d93c187e0d0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure to download further payloads or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e58da269f---1222088757.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/80793846277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/dutapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcb2e177233---29807967841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa577dc0e314d128d821f93e9ec7471/74209572904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57dfb68fa7dd6d523c06d009b51d8d46/11366292408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/pevadatogagixivozukibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161033e3a9a810---44456045873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/risoraxelusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/redufulizagodeboboxiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9f8f244a3---49375730831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5c8f3202---xokomifakuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd00479d7e5---pivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66dbbb315a9507ebd5b8242e4df9842/55763986878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/96066729137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b91e5ed9ffef3a860e9665b800fa4b6/feviwidagefefepelujapameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078723a57fdb---11064873219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs100.com/clients/e/e3/e3ed30f4e85b1ff1e74f61348c82e8eb/File/44000332023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca57f498ffc---35814262253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/64930344826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/2224460132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aeeok9atpknt8q8626rg6msk7/wanokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/mizinupukifozirixirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/50215866722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=systematic+theology+erickson+pdfPDF 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_off0000eb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001034a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034A 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 08fd3501d166ee5aef95081a778f28953afabfb153284503bbd5a6e3293e715b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9A 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 122344936fbc1b1b18d2984bda72ed50936c3bd02232c9d13c9eeea6454b9359