Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05bcfb42f0162e4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d8d0a1229f36db44a4beffd0bd3c5699 SHA-1: fd556705e41f7f2f25a4e79847fec5ed9032d0b5 SHA-256: 05bcfb42f0162e4b28279930f2eb3fe32ac12cc376348047f09cec3d6497556c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to classify this as a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503155822942786.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/50616903099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978854090a5---30312846997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonyazilim.com/images/Media/files/bavetagesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/pizareroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/resuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hvgdpmh2adil2lgsd0g7lmc2m/62293834668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab69b37ba1093e12d8352ee90e30670/67124756622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k57mqkcho4prp05vqgr0ljp7k7/dagorafosanububud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mldinsaat.com/image/files/39818785738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/bisevoxejujeravira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/xenajoxaxabovitezukoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3bf87ffa36a58ffab7109c6ac793240/73543607740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wipaphun.com/UserFiles/File/sezujojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8b0e7dd161---wegagifamofitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e2655072---31657637634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/jovizelemodoleluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/wimekefajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/40261429868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/pevodamiviwewomezasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetourscadiz.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/13407184428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252reqbcgcg5eh7mgmth28v024/nelenuxelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/pezavagabolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/20108935331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hurt+ear+with+q+tipPDF 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_off0000eb72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB72 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 8f8206117d0685f1babb8871149e02270e7e3f3330a21530a1bdae1e1391f448
font_01_sfnt_off0001028f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA1 17324 bytes
SHA-256: c06b48d42f522268ef9182c0251f22daca01eeb39ae0264c0d35249c71651c0f