Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08f000f139114e4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 44d4f851c0f4b25982272836d7a7034d SHA-1: ebda963233eff4067449fa6ec83b25c6dbef30b3 SHA-256: 08f000f139114e4cca464f98d042c16446bd6ed162c9a951ccc2ed9beb002791
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs that leverage external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pregnant+android+18
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_CC4BEEC0D3D9F50E.pdf
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da302dbc8a---92504743990.pdf
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19490977472.pdf
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kediguzagitu.pdf
    • https://totalsewa.com/userfiles/file/59750690964.pdf
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/gabuzogozezezinitak.pdf
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/36028717099.pdf
    • http://villacappuccina.com/userfiles/files/pezuxipow.pdf
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210910195512_yhnpy4.pdf
    • http://yanartekstil.com/firma/files/fewedu.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dta9v9l4qucute5ma9is9urg4/50769562275.pdf
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejiwexilogamenon.pdf
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/zezotutes.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qneugeo35nepf0f1jak53vl9p/33011153034.pdf
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc355edbb62a673272c82867e02139e/sexiwemopusononikano.pdf
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/kotosasudezin.pdf
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5950630108.pdf
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/bajuvofokogumuxir.pdf
    • http://laserinnsbruck.com/static/66680119309.pdf
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/wivoj.pdf
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/98696426754.pdf
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3bf6523e497a9d07c63daa48a3ca1c/99858010346.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e611.bin
248e6042eb821d8424a7da6de18477c209358c1d5dd7b649bdbc0b04cb540def
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE611 19616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011991.bin
49371e936f3015fb8c7cf45e071077c701f2280354a5d1c8569b0dc574224119
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11991 10472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001314b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1314B 16792 bytes