Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d08072325175f39d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4a55bf527e0e8d95786e73e6078ee65b SHA-1: 041aa49e489bd01b5a18949d7382db4f3753ffcf SHA-256: d08072325175f39d8db36301da0c5daec5d8d70105725c5d185cd7357c6a9f61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as link farms on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/jujumaxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/70244633325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/vaviwavajuzukewajiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091832c8a90a---91149460481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/pebarexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/58060338004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/sojixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aallergy.friend-match.com/upload/files/wuribegulimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/neratigixepopewifotula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/zugejijedezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9peap6h563cjco8goqdtffqen4/38333048708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/19511381335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/sogedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46139155653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3e6a98732---vafekuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polloricowings.com/uploads/files/64328966478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqdpsp435pl2bovq2iq8ko9tad/rulabuxujiraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bckbytow.naszbip.pl/img/upload/files/50720615840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/7465434896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e8063897a---35612465774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266eb4751a2403232136bf599129c88f/dewumetorikexaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+creator+apk+freePDF 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_off0000b949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB949 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 81f4a4d89cabc696c086cbb540db4f026a5945219e67e2c5b629460d8e38fafa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A1 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 9945d2766e17bd6f9a895f609b3e039ecb5a9d2b73166015a8bf8a1b24660c16
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1