Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db08eb8ddca1655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 06:30:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d8e24e4b0652dc85c4f701b98f8b58f4 SHA-1: 4062e9cb54fd052e8951ecc47bd3a1abf16f67a5 SHA-256: 9db08eb8ddca1655413595f0092e3d20dfb741c4fffd843d1fd0ee021fd3bad1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links form a link farm, a common technique used to distribute malware or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4b4c9ebd7---wopepukaxonasuba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c37f65272---losulejemedagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333240048609d108a8c0b5dbbb88864a/vesiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608355eb7f957---21624584165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/virutofofuzetone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-28/20210428204422753164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderia512.com/js/upload/files/totinirutoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/57606377829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfeafa049e---gipadozakoraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/gexovuzalaratetusevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/mokuketes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/rufukixezokegupunanige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607348735ca17---84689681902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075be47c0cfc---kesuvazudusonotiligemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b4b923ece---47099696008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/35587311723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083004e3de34---82263761889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862d160dfea---67812086802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepugigunesetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/gimilinixirogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d14319436828a47cbc050eb0e65ec56/41724999603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aadur861rcuunqt9uejp3gnejo/tamaxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25497522088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec539d04856---linozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=form+captain+speech+examplePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001001c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001C 10716 bytes
SHA-256: d7c53fec2792e0691e15c363364b42cf98d5b4baf71bab7afa96e8fd8269bee6
font_01_sfnt_off0001188a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188A 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 2c01bbf036d941c4924c41c6ca4ece371129b33ab7eb13b254ff172156de73ed
font_02_sfnt_off000145ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145EA 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_03_sfnt_off00015bca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1