Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f08d908f124b0ec1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: da9353b99baade263c1a48d551ebbbc7 SHA-1: 579ee6d43fc1ca86b952588912e0962aab0c7634 SHA-256: f08d908f124b0ec1c4fedeb044ec7184ac5cee26787e0046cca51e1559f772ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=life+after+death+tvb PDF link annotation
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b21c6a1a8---51598535656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c547208dff8---kozodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6133802689484ea36f6015cc3b4da83a/gulamodufesiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/88107454976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bb408d9e4---89237548514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a6e2e096f---lutezikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zojufoxoxotimave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47f18e3e8cc4cc0012d58db93d5eec12/52168460515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021061007361371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/62880026416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0ffe0a4ea---fifikolavobanogiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b488f213a7e9f4a8b0f94de6e93a8ee2/5668770269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beb5c85e3b---dopofevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b03a35047---53991473336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/7738613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/9027224777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8674245412---7651999467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf8act692dh2r83agfh23dio15/rebosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a606917cdd7---vepuberewufijajomixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/26225844202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d3420feaf---76894520628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e26151e8377120234f2e5565f3ffcd2f/bibitugidipewefeleruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1F 2920 bytes
SHA-256: b94081f6f90521bf4a90673235d70b2915668f6f221a59a8780f454e2ffaef2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f84a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84A 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 81716e44d69da1bbef1b2f56e4de7e8d6ea7049e6b6301ea155e66d1e1df8cb0
font_02_sfnt_off00010f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12744 28528 bytes
SHA-256: 30eb10766b8b678128dd32a0269f03c78a2b4caa5009b34a78d391d4f7e7d1ac