Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b08904187e775a4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3fd113b476c259b870f200c0a79cd1dd SHA-1: 987e517d0bf9965cec8bca8e0fc41069aa1bb27f SHA-256: b08904187e775a4c569172f9662e26b9d3ae157d4c037e688d2df8ef8b72590f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, suggesting an attempt to hide its true content or functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/gumesixipan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/fukowonojinebejuxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/66816957816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/62760405710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/75860517514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360mart.net/uploads/files/wumedijojuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094686f44bd3---pomiwadeguvuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/divudata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/geneniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c87d0e0d7ab819398d4addfaec8b94/sejokoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15011185614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/92170398324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubesealer.com/uploaded/file/944775057611ee7509d907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/32863899576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7f31df3bf---lenibadikevesowelanizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a537dfdeb0c---43586784015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazoxemuxujaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/14179529117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c912d9118---toxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/36715697091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7710b84fae190a48dd6d2b2bd7fa9a/68990906796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikico.net/img-tym/files/tivawaromebetexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+initial+sounds+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000b1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D1 14364 bytes
SHA-256: 9f838544d1ed410e66eaf920fafc72e170579e4b311cf2aec46f09f55c08c9da
font_01_sfnt_off0000d558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD558 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6F 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6d4715749c3fe38ae1d8790a529be2217551f6fa452efc4fa67afcf96f3aa5