Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05130e8ecc12ae12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 17:34:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e0ea65995e39893dd0eea05b5d7c564e SHA-1: 70fcf48d5d4558b120bbeaf67f7fd1ea4997e720 SHA-256: 05130e8ecc12ae12a7c59903612093735f96b86e1904240fe12f30d5d566b462
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as a phishing trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/porogalojesotezure.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1sjnr2pui5iq0orfrc154tnoc/lapolukokumujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e8281fda92343b30b5e4921f97550f/gupefowijokagixidajixemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e61cd40f60a62653747c9cee718f49e/domim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9dc69c1baa---42238126924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81471b800---41272093053.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30ae97ae1538f06a2facd611a6c6ee5/dosabotajimujukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1ec37e51ccd3a47f9ddfc35003a3c6/82426680459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1a05e5060---33475091733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be85a9d9992---nefobaretakixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8j3k2tug512lgtc6oitvk91t30/wewalaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210609143818_xemlc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f74dnl8gd2i5ev3en3g5hl3f0/berupesipifimopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm6eramkeok40r4877v3a5l0d5/lekuwuzabojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/kemavesiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e53f8e7f1---46087827285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6052b6f76d---tugijamoruxexejavojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb4a812a70749699d85dd9362e683a3/minomirawuvisagevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/69036537967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/996965d02d51f7e94fc44a3ba4eca353/gomude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59ab6cba23---bunukojejugusitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/82784067341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccb38be7c4---81289929567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/lojisusavilediferes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/jeraledetiwopevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=curso+de+processo+penal+fernando+capez+pdf+2018PDF 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_off00014e94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E94 11116 bytes
SHA-256: cb5f95479e2542d1b03e291bbb972e56206ca0911d046d9a34bde24077e01220
font_01_sfnt_off000168c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168C4 21332 bytes
SHA-256: d0682fe85c0a9edf4c76e375260589d39bcbc9d7e1b4ca0a25b09caf619b3ac5
font_02_sfnt_off00019c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1