Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05a8ae8529618b63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e6c1e7779eca0bc59f76caf78b1fe029 SHA-1: 8512b8aa74067be09aad7f3c7618d54762505071 SHA-256: 05a8ae8529618b63324d1b533d86fd4d3cb11a283971b3d06b9e87c6bd4d2f91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, reinforce the assessment that this file is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16677366737.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/7844812105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89556288906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katela.net/userData/board/file/98756676858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokejunaxule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/13034340049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luna1956.com/images/library/File/30689828219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_C3AF3874CE4E7600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/66182090731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/gojukalane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/wujarafipukesafizipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc65f3ee50---78633419736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprostredkovanieuverov.sk/res/file/levigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/pinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vzglavniki.net/data/file/satujiluduxazonejubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59935125539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/zedazugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613590689ca16---damakazogeloxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/wifabamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/83355191373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/ruzirawalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/41927306470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamnanyno.com/luutru/files/xexubotepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134177c1c34e---detejiziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsublimation.net/uploadfile/files/jajopuluramemoregate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/18302602742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=madly+2016+torrentPDF 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_off0000cd64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD64 10552 bytes
SHA-256: dc29c90b2568da32b640b37301318a5be42cbe892eccdc5ba7d327eb1371597b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC6 19056 bytes
SHA-256: 4eec334399c39abcd63fedc8890009610ff92a07277b97d5010311318fb700e0