Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d08a65d96315ccbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-08-09 14:20:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d0ab6274b5c1bd08459d9b7f4b611274 SHA-1: c2785cab11dad62a7e05179952b2883a8e1ad969 SHA-256: d08a65d96315ccbec70040b770208b4114184310a99347ca88aae581c42f55d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely using spearphishing attachments as the initial vector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/zapefemisegeruwilaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/92425713759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5c8dc8617---74860401101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/jabugegafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1b2322b81b---vigunilafijizifidolozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delvalle68.com/clients/54584/File/9465222983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9efba612b---wepepimopagipabobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/wovowuselitumupovubunotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da00742a931---99506705316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ea4411997287c6fb9e8404e615c35f/tifiparep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/88053819018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/rabagugoxejosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2eb1874d2---38667245631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4979b8576---45970826641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6b6e9bcb854514baf966ee06145512/34171297481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/949159617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608631c215510---32344170743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6r4m2qnc1kr3r3gqf3bk2e69c/xiwokatinodosusosorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/43864436668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101balkon.ru/upload/files/69360018473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=atlantis+the+antediluvian+world+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off000109e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000121fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121FA 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 09963380666921610889f8c5c4c410d04f0d01c98f28a7fc9ecfcf675b96657a
font_02_sfnt_off00014c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C9B 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 89a41d545be307e84b9d4fde67c6cdd9d00411a65a5c1df996bfa109f028f857