Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08fdd72fce4c576c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 19cf2ffa645c1561d25f0498492719db SHA-1: 52284a5a7733f7ce62de803dd09f9592df4c831f SHA-256: 08fdd72fce4c576c9faaf394fb6b9a2b16c6f71852849725aa652f87291e888b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of specific user-facing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/dovepetuxodenozetit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/gigepubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupuwifilanuzesoxutosopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/89178360481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/77991934961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hovpikac1vjjlgj7k7eq9nj97s/nawugumapemaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49091916939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/95761094057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/pufunimedewoxizoxeral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4efe35ae69a5a401abd868ec2f6a8590/85731780197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/wuwuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bb6a3abf0---rerapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/garesidobepofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d8907460827e05a5c7ac7867cee18b/sojogeguduxanepirujegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21705963838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/73998416755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumexinidazujatavoxogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deleeuwputten.nl/site/data/ws/files/dekijimajisideru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/nigiredimudura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/20004605115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/fetuzipamegovomoserez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/ruveximajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210902125444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=omron+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000ee30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE30 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 13905b8510d94b0aa41d14e215fd8691301ce856e3032e6cc7c7ae8b7d0928e6
font_01_sfnt_off00011a9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9D 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 3505cb31e2cbd760624c0a68643fc754359f2e05f817a175e59887a95c87a240
font_02_sfnt_off0001317b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1317B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1