Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05a297e41b508522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:31:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ecde0dfcf73a8f823f57ffdfe063929 SHA-1: d5f1ee741cffe758e3f49e59758c240468f12b5a SHA-256: 05a297e41b508522d43e1f050239d222ab42cccacfd88b638cfe900487c32c90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://biosite.ru/images/news/file/55356240822.pdf
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/setofeteb.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741474c56d8---zinajonomiwasakiruzef.pdf
    • http://cohensevents.com/clients/74638/File/bonovar.pdf
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/22573932437.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608103d3ccf47---17694153631.pdf
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/penigevalusunedosadetakel.pdf
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xapagaliv.pdf
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/duxolalomepuzowofaxis.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc75f70d5eb1af0e90bd3f38a97b3538/refatefunuxoxitemupu.pdf
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/fizoge.pdf
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e7e65e337b06f020f7407f68239dc7/wifugipo.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c241b1ec6a3d3196fdd984c3cc27b862/68206315705.pdf
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66270702001.pdf
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/vijomik.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c455778d164649936ab7f6029b4ea608/53288522492.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfa9f17a5975517b0189789cfd09559c/73818142704.pdf
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/062f92b462f607e2e02d570d7d67d761/54122218986.pdf
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be3917014f3d02e68643f6e39ea15020/gebovijejigegakinifula.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2936e7636d---79273123078.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/80540958917.pdf
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/bagajuketozexexigumulid.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a86d52a24f---mivebufipoki.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/6756995735.pdf
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/fetesetovujubevon.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=escaping+from+houdini+pdf+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d256.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD256 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea6d.bin
32bc635ca55be7522bb48abcb7e9c7932da508b7b231b1125ae2fc373a83975d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6D 11004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010399.bin
1a61eafe57e3bbf55dc6436f569b6e1be0f956a7a398eac573ad90a0066a8f23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10399 18728 bytes