Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05bf4ee6b7caa4b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 20:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ad19514ab91fd105ba1b39ff311fcaaf SHA-1: 240ac06a02d33b4d4ef503f37bd565d7c65d3edb SHA-256: 05bf4ee6b7caa4b72616aa3af940fa79fa4cbf8d85a1f1fa749e36e90db92c9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such PDFs for link farming, often associated with SEO manipulation or phishing. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vetrivel+watch+online+free
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelefimibomi.pdf
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2046777293.pdf
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/7426710651.pdf
    • http://dlabiura.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migawo.pdf
    • http://ayrh.internet-match.com/upload/files/solosoru.pdf
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/gotirimuzul.pdf
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/62272878521.pdf
    • https://y3stwk65l-mn9.com/contents/files/93530712347.pdf
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/81365164187.pdf
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/miwegeviwakutuliwejevame.pdf
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phdb564sqbvqoqq3o6f1ul33r2/kodafebufuludadan.pdf
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/57064426169.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2a7a202f5---zemetowepugupu.pdf
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48766147353.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132842de99ed---74801623372.pdf
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/jefunakenupofibupipok.pdf
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/guzikupolujanevulekeduti.pdf
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/46672186453.pdf
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/84926833903.pdf
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/ninaleki.pdf
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2637343b9ab80c3c932fb6fbf0c5c7/79569929331.pdf
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/88779668645.pdf
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/79803774473.pdf
    • 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_off0000b1a4.bin
58f09d84b62eb3201e68ea31de4d3003f65c5fc42be57bc7d4255a12f6edefa2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1A4 15036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7bb.bin
4e6b6f80774be418ccf07bc0470a5229580255df5e905370934463dba4d9aa6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BB 10388 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef36.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF36 16792 bytes