Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b08cf014f448c4b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:37:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b4af53ee13c4a8a6ed7dc0a68bb0219e SHA-1: cb83ef33582fbc018ba8a31f5e6e10748bdc5b68 SHA-256: b08cf014f448c4b263c06c59eb3b9059e34182a67bef3732ddfe143b07cbe127
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0kekvughmltdg32ot3alidcdqk/17329376149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f5788e870---vuzupirawamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlq31gh19nkbud9opicu57bul8/timivadov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946941489d0699a763ac56346cc54fc0/xuvasikiwanataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/76389210240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95db80b7952b9100ae5af3bd5ec0450d/suwadipatulitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/79214937975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c215cf454a8d7092de85fc1088f7fad9/37780411818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7fbde2946---10403806154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cf96ed670---xojuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ee53a666f---xamabididimiruvafoxanuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/13797949624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32829281479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b6bb288ee8df4be9de53c093dc97a6e/3646600444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/27534304890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mr+c%27s+bar+and+grillPDF 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_off0000b2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2ED 16864 bytes
SHA-256: 76535e61be4f2a3b24a5f9d5888e689f719e445a1a4ec5050203acd8ee8e0bb3
font_01_sfnt_off0000de95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AC 10364 bytes
SHA-256: b346354deb47f2ff1cc86c98f794e8b6cb06e27f44d20654ee41f09c5adda424