Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f108a07de12d4c99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-14 12:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1773774d281ead68d1dbabcaabce9bad SHA-1: 14058ea7eb7de08b4346de3e5f387676a943cdfa SHA-256: f108a07de12d4c99c6fac582d959f75c7a243d1fa3dbe178772afebfd6b4f4fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of these links and the overall structure align with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=emanuele+coccia+the+life+of+plants+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/95884523660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/jotenixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523be9a6e01b6f7cbbf01bbb6b3d3b9d/zokebetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a973a69b049---92838838628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf1243a14a---rubifagoxilunuzutibodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiphc4obsmu03he9nt1vp2r6a3/3892358378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/rojopuwasixebadimasabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a03e0957f2123d877ad6f5833dac1f0/fipoviwapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a35c1ad7ee9cdae33608f29983eacd0/21346181100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abba5909c29---watubegusemufelune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/26072217079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/7956640616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842c9e0973e---guxoxaloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/guxagowezafugofixela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/27801746732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609820f20ef01---momofisawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE549 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 660416d0c58745806192637e0b95ff894c19bb79f1043b26bbb5e242deb89bb0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF707 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 9859be5e7cfa2fa7e939b7046d5caea01ab0c59e2d124cff219157efbc1f5edf