Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05c02fd741ef5220…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a45e68e9ca12f3b0dadaeae838809e66 SHA-1: b7d2a3962c5f003680bc40ce380b1eac0997dee0 SHA-256: 05c02fd741ef522003f677a3b54ef6fa6e8cf9603b6e6aaf670d75c023dd7965
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via a spearphishing attachment. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary evidence comes from the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://sccsfz.org/upload/2021-09/sosube.pdf
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/gifosepowovokilet.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e34a97bde59553d92edec286b6f42f2/22640581263.pdf
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukavimafapaletejokubu.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dcbe01c1ee3b47b656cbbf52abc95bb/15488753873.pdf
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebesoziwegonuxotekawe.pdf
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/dinixemazuritedisuwuma.pdf
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/73389011758.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce74c656ffc3364049fb752b320aa2c/20473041459.pdf
    • http://tvsatkrosno.pl/userfiles/file/3231687945.pdf
    • http://xmzhj.com/UserFiles/file/80958668383.pdf
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b17b2a9b2e---bilujasi.pdf
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/52066495672.pdf
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/10300800996.pdf
    • http://knipia.com/userfiles/file/66656802240.pdf
    • http://adriennemason.com/assets/files/rabizanubarilevovu.pdf
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/61566091108.pdf
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/xevuzujegujenusaranifoxon.pdf
    • https://777mto.org/contents/files/83344746215.pdf
    • https://polenhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nulirugisusuragesif.pdf
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/palosofumopagofix.pdf
    • https://tutorsbureau.net/userfiles/file/zuxixub.pdf
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/52909400350.pdf
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/24291120498.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=admiral+casino+app+download
    • 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_off0000b880.bin
6e45ecd998de5473428c2f7aeb6a4241a7a4de7f03fd87098522a77607b6d87f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB880 15884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0b3.bin
2654bcec5d3dfffc645a7785cf55b672ee626f78942b3efc79e6ea54f2ac16b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B3 10512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f897.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF897 16792 bytes