Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05724f9a70dd0f26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 03:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 88ef252f701eacc28aa9bf0669a5e07f SHA-1: 60b318180d07df40d3fd55d5ca518413a35b0da7 SHA-256: 05724f9a70dd0f26d5b13075c10463eafe38875f091959cdecac37a7a37d0f4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fisica+general+hector+perez+montiel+6ta+edicion+pdf+2018 PDF link annotation
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekukusizimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/disudixuruzositagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8652149e0cb86f3691bb2101ab1ebd65/nobazoxitebowixoxefunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccacf90029---jubutemorigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/senanidefekexaruxalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/pedosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goshaggers.com/clients/2/2c/2ce39afd4341152949bc146f79210d6f/File/74387992384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610324130a79a---43988869129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49471015340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e06640c48547bbbf6c0ea8e0a1716f4b/84896465843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210628033137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752c9c1354d---woxapomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ae61e95ec8ab1c4c96b964d11a6387/59683651685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/06/file/20210606_095230_136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f2d5f2a993ea337f8a82fa2060b71ba/xofoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609177d839dec---90287209319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1982538827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/20285488776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48nqrqc8dk7a60ub75e29v05i0/38297271144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd8b18a54cd---34499469210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l00bvv4ndp4djus4a02c0j1p7/59773834502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ig4b8uof5lareqikl8795k6m0e/77291571692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/2317189264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/5974824175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/rukipoforizorire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/63511365032.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_off0000d79f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79F 17964 bytes
SHA-256: ba57dd120298d9c6c92bdf6e034aa21494a092424e1829ad0ffe889ce3904a2d
font_01_sfnt_off0001053b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053B 11772 bytes
SHA-256: 3d2eb9ca78e19af11daabc543327b434183816816f50b4b0c16fb1ee4b4ffb9d
font_02_sfnt_off0001210d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210D 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off00013689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13689 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1