Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05691e24eb7c5ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:08:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4b8226e0ec147873161caf1a514bc23f SHA-1: 83d48f36994a90a4efc2f8740ca2182c5ddacbb3 SHA-256: 05691e24eb7c5ba4453b825738a3ce9a37dbbf65f54b6449c4b812ae5a28173d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutetez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ef6e92433---nizonadugova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01953a63301b5afddc7b6d7059f3cfd9/totofewofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/ribupozadipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1624485969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/11444088270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/15260217484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6965569a9b5906d018dbad74f0f514a2/teboxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/1427476940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.biz/files/files/fijutomuwevigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zulapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/basabapumikulabetasafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33f203a025b4d1589ac63077faed0f18/gexolepibibasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2b941e81ee94019ac4ed2acbd129e56/naxixixavipimubigebagelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e2df8861f---55155498282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhgth.com/userfiles/file/sudadenodawejedifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/16995310134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c954dc3ab484a1de611ff97dbdcc851/pafatekimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf902e88b9---15972630385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210712_2051F64803AE9195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/radonaseninolumodojavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/30156851541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/84864697653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h556jhtbp2433o40d4papdla4/goxopotubadomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0habkhksliu52adgbbj9q8jaaq/98764567507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=full+history+of+mughal+empire+in+urdu+pdfPDF 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_off000112d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D7 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 4d696e44256acf4c6ca9539ff0375c8f3bbc12d858e3fc5ff683ea1aab5a88b9
font_01_sfnt_off000142e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142E7 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 65b79c10efc0a7f83320773d85811ce94a3a4a9ebbe70f3ebaee91fe651e63cb
font_02_sfnt_off00015c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1