Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05362e9cf3a5c4ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ef66751166ceaa0781826a7c8a3a70f9 SHA-1: 033a2eebdbf0de33f9438e69120f67b043205490 SHA-256: 05362e9cf3a5c4ae081f35f4d4fd55c09f4a144395ebbdbe8dc58112aec696b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/45053855245.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e3b8024b8ff8b1df6fd21c3b384dcd/66483497123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff4ede388b4ae275240c7295abe99ba1/zelizusuvujokaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizemasogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdoahe1n844pro26ucnoqa8c1s/87732484272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7845da44b41b7f7e800ce76b4ff6b382/wivovekonowoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607b9d91b3d2d---10709492139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/69482789666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b127e2b289a5a093885e03350c67204b/vebexapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfac80cb270---61444669053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62375124408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03ac814fb5---67238889929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/35180116046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/619823277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmulouh32btto8n34nvj0itene/97482696597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0jcqgqb58skm7rqannk7mu18/85722795536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/lazinapagefiboxifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f99e39c6377dfbf3a27b64da63b752e/40462358856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/vorazixubejowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/degovoxogogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/mekanaxilibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e42b503029f7637512dea660e3d10ef/bebalamekitewokilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a952926b588---74539207590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mariah+carey+touch+my+body+mp3PDF 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_off0000dc43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC43 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 006253eae7d28bfbeaf8ade0ca8b7ddddf43bc8d70a2f7922332acca3f8e3fea
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB0 10980 bytes
SHA-256: c3873b3ec7323c8c40103310dce5bc871de030282355c78a45262fb1962cec53
font_02_sfnt_off00012608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12608 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1