Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08fafcc771710330…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f87607a15debf252da06bfaef47e3b2a SHA-1: 46a4a4603d6c5e1cd62a99067165baef5d46e395 SHA-256: 08fafcc7717103306fab40b60fc283df02d6de0ea0b531ac3443ed81bd137173
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but likely serving as a lure to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/7787570614.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/dufenirixote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabiwijebomekurigiwidatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/23510405849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbcb94464c80f9c1e8a69254cd08a10/61597452338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e07e647a1e---81503941013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/95197808753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/93745292507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tk-weld.com/images/library/File/11691134588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadidavokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a27dc6114ea0355c1c39d06366908f/pojezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/94762829159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbc6261c65---tukolozepiwoninufedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/23898557937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/mubirobivowagume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainanrup.longi.tw/uploadfiles/files/20210909_213443_3664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nararawimepakukamowoluvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/3651794174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investgeorgia.ge/userfiles/file/xafivubuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.com/userfiles/file/fujenofizelipefowidegijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/15958899494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/pagajubagew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2c2d0ba3f382da29191d839eba1b5a/49665417368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/vogusuxaludugevawomomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+live+photos+your+lock+screenPDF 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_off0000d8ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BA 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 38d53a01216073cba51aeae1fef5a1a6c3737500aed6376e028369b81b65d851
font_01_sfnt_off00010666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7D 11088 bytes
SHA-256: a6b74f129a06812573bd43ce2e76cfc5c8aac85a3dd2646a1363a8b495975b49