Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d08ce7a3e9409578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 15:13:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d194a138de39aad53c3ef6a2f97b5614 SHA-1: 66a282217fbdf1f82cf0b18702f260ec9f7952e4 SHA-256: d08ce7a3e94095781b22b4db0781f502cf27ea49c2df3b9b71b164a05b5d2d65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, hosting numerous URLs on potentially compromised or disposable domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or SEO spam. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://cortabellanews.com/userimages/94330908052.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e30e63b7ec8---1455221845.pdf
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/juzomogubasogolasuvasafew.pdf
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21281921473.pdf
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/12096227180.pdf
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_1E6F4F703C08A21F.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d86a9863752.pdf
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08efc8e30a574dd177c91bd3d8b26cdb/92743287915.pdf
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/4306047749.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4816f5187fe9abe9774cb9dddb20b026/fuminumubepolemesi.pdf
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e78028b494e0874770684854a2a31160/4804081274.pdf
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5de39b7a46---pisudixi.pdf
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b125181d0bf---rivexoti.pdf
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/pabonokebuzibuzazo.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cab36cc4f---xotokazirizipuv.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e46b9df8be64ded5712d45f66f682d7/sasuvuvuzutov.pdf
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/fagok.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4tqf53u70dopbkjeh7e0isoo7/zuxokimatat.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b69ad8fcb387638e8e9b76bbdee450de/vefiwupibum.pdf
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivi4aeftigu2v5rsmlp24690g7/53163582556.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0a073c743---13986123130.pdf
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/bubobo.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70ebbc6ac5---98385741624.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=draw+a+musical+instrument
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f31a.bin
c192ca788dd4011c92a599b174aca49695d61fb5a30c926441799dbec1f9f323
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31A 10456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ae7.bin
6e199e6b4a06b20de04ce020c7c464bcf9100376a3a08a1dbe9d8aeb3ae28896
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE7 16660 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135e6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135E6 16792 bytes