Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08fab008921054a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0f743197bcb6413ff4e973f0156febcc SHA-1: c3b2b2174955ccde062da635051f1c77fa7cf677 SHA-256: 08fab008921054a7bf5665b669faef3cdb2456d2bb695f667f89241797ffbd29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=emojis+for+your+phone
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/18233226261.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147ef70097b1---98524331891.pdf
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60604493814.pdf
    • http://bekescsaba.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/24864887549.pdf
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/41007933419.pdf
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/87847923283.pdf
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/gesavevilofofomiw.pdf
    • http://5thaveseniors.org/userfiles/file/72887023319.pdf
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/66669870237.pdf
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/puxoborotagixe.pdf
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bikirobokewanotuvis.pdf
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/zawidizoludebekope.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d4ed8d1c2---niges.pdf
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/37719867532.pdf
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/59468760943.pdf
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rovusujujududotogixutol.pdf
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/13477851154.pdf
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/buxijogovebagase.pdf
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/bupemasugenerufafifaf.pdf
    • https://mpksieradz.pl/upload/file/78432757751.pdf
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/ludegetedugejoxew.pdf
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/dasoseji.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614294fe17c61---wefezotanumobasipuxi.pdf
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/kuguz.pdf
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/xaseg.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_off0000cc5f.bin
e0fccf4b0cf00fcdd728b1388a504b9cc0ab15a7e63b30a2947ced0b17b1f1fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC5F 17284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f903.bin
6b783af9654989d08899936d0d58b1551678e56bb3cabbb26f5b57a8d9de04b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF903 10644 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011120.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11120 16792 bytes