Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05823455f895d65a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:45:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e075adfdc160da2cb674aed9cf082dd0 SHA-1: ec07c5b0769cc8d0d9ecf25132eb5c7f9be24837 SHA-256: 05823455f895d65ac5c3e7b16519cdad2aa4fa67baeb1e9d44bd072f5bbae821
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the malicious intent of directing users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=streaming+everyone+wants+to+meet+you+sub+indo PDF link annotation
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/ripazikoguxunezuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d250571eafe3a5cb56bcac71ec1ebea/ribupelowolajinovuduxadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16d366977868fcf592d2952c1c85d4ad/muvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9o02m54u39q0vf1itvgu702pp/panimovijiwuwobuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a021bb912e---34302213076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/lotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969c1eba8f7---35503532697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/71459329685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/kusijelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/wiwakipolexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7bc33e0608c478623217582d86be63/6810314567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/duzajaxiresujoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/32674448939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160719c26b8e8c---gujunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ed9ab5da26c6c4aa58b260498a359f/vojofefebipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8843387ddb---66676731836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/85833824339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871239389f6---sipalujokolalemufoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12689716809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharise.net/Uploadfiles/files/dokekosipusajelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29ec0050e9---86058713653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/60066322973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb5b11e0d4d3a0da3a42d7724984eae3/rawirebadomozipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77d9bed7cc4c6bb8920513f565e09f8f/rojofavowopugu.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_off0000cf05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF05 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 7fb12c189ac938ce41b541ddc66c635ffb0d76e368e3ae95db18ea04ba4d465b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D1 3100 bytes
SHA-256: 097cee9b4172363ccfe96c6fe4ba3baca6da99d2087c89e565f2a5faf1a90b95
font_02_sfnt_off0000f549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF549 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 3d777ec1943e0448850440e92c68623212902f34c060fe3e6275523dc55a75b1
font_03_sfnt_off00012140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12140 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1