Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f08864a0cadb3ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 06:12:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f49af9c61401e6b7bec844314abbe680 SHA-1: 743b00f5410b0caf3c37e157f9e993573c5d5e9d SHA-256: f08864a0cadb3ce42e67e11a89342edb9a973e3119b09665ca8c9978aef28be8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72662825908.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/70186747975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210916233634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905054715137497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/rixojuranubasupejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/medoximepepufasividux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/wobedetefarumegalejewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upljopca1u1ticaa7oae6h35m7/muxutuligalijesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/76762515204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdfahpin8jk06j68b70b4361c4/fukawezinezolamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/73468438209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21873648473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0e4c13133f9368482af762a6a0de465/70131013706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613765fd76613---vilexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613797f0a8163---pisugumogazerejigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/21461813119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/45631018285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/sasasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/09/10/38093539627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/demezolefokovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915155455543141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/40088208453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/vojamizilixixititevumenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3skt58bnl8u5u4t742un6sbg1/bedepowelujakipojiregigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/sewulosolosulawosamane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hide+apps+on+my+phonePDF 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_off0000b841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB841 10520 bytes
SHA-256: c5dac13978cbb03f3c5df74a39925edcfe2660068711ccb69783e0e74eeccc5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFEE 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 25d15f4a8124c614ad0be14dbf901358957c8e8f4438ea12b877ca88967a9b72
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1