Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05bd2da7b901d743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c7ed2753b2699d25b035f77679c72e22 SHA-1: 5beda37ea1b7877e6b1a3c9daa97e14bce41a442 SHA-256: 05bd2da7b901d743da5c7483c0baec9fe3b51e36d09212fd8bf944c510d08ada
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752310cd33b---26314993623.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/widiloxipifodofuxokukuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a344b52cf29---sisodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents//files/83530608929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb5296a50b619a5ffe86681396b8a87/46134478536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a1ec3ed83d70aa4071cd52c3a1a208/52015774460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/xokulujifuluzemuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16216826639179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/mopaburagonifedezaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/begesoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/dejizode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df9749ee47---komowategemebewopuxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0ba579f9f---3909800683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/rofavomixexekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bfb8549c4---51227835778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadarkogomezfamily.com/clients/7/76/76920377ef4e0cfe2c6e77079a05cbd4/File/78287330312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34e882911---waronavisivigeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2e494dfca0---59799545159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/14232131136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a237cb1830---56674691895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1ec627725b---xopuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/zedipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/tetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=national+lampoon%27s+christmas+vacation+juliette+lewisPDF 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_off0000f8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A0 11032 bytes
SHA-256: b3303d73f39d85f9b93d9c395d9919de42a10fbce1c76e810498c59230c35d9f
font_01_sfnt_off00011229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11229 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 416906d15564b17ff56b721076a5844fb9649bb1d4698ae08e3c78e23626b2f0
font_02_sfnt_off000140e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1