Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05b31f4787f6fbf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:17:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f42539563d09d636e3b64de3ef09aaca SHA-1: b933b74fb64adcf07eb0906b471e555f0808d176 SHA-256: 05b31f4787f6fbf7f8dd13079d3fd42e8986b6ec2fac9751845de7314749dae6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it functions as a redirection mechanism, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143774755653---sivejoxusakivotukel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/17296394604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/sakileluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/90991820422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/83662689414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/75777681133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/25427503251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/36650673839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f98c14373---deturapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buydecor.ru/uploads/files/jonajifanikozodomigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/33270745169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/vufukon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796cfdd7b025c3eaa020302f003fc749/zoputubijewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cab00cb7ec---xaxosowatojitajalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/tijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/15685618892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///fiwozitawamuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52963566.com/upload/file/202109132303180092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11076192981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/76873262639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210908172901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/13064630544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59751673511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=am0ng+us+freePDF 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_off0000ded7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED7 18596 bytes
SHA-256: d6b3b5a6ac15a3ae40bb2416714d56385ad8f65139d13df87618aa2f881624ef
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9F 10244 bytes
SHA-256: dfcdd78fb3ed17e272a0189506592426af80d267dd474331943a8c33abbc6b22
font_02_sfnt_off000126a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1