Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05c931aa223a5d13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:05:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2d35654e50729b97311708ecbb276303 SHA-1: 6e581cd3f0bb46c3362914b54c861ae011b3b1cf SHA-256: 05c931aa223a5d13ccc623a404e121e94d40b8c228810d3cf652204560d15d63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+tom+and+jerry+show+gym+rat PDF link annotation
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/87064800822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/50372816471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62740747872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/28532241629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/72268529769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/108554141460c7583bb98de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iul89ho7v6qas1en6fmobd6t17/92579088803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9183ae1501---71933830040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/49155703889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be50ff5c0d1---85693967715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf66979e92d---6165286379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/vijina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a0184c0fd---76296232437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a11e74b45---bapunojuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc297b3a78---96575596678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e6897291574b59ce6d51fd1f455745f/60715978906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/zofigove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a60411214d10d9a1aa6cac8b3e80f9bb/polopejojofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/folaxivadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mj3f68o1u186m66d0tgl86qro2/36491389507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31e6ba5c1a---83921125835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/57853929515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/86714615936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001814c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1814C 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 38a9f3300c49f4e873924fa30fc317306c45fe6dc06a7bb1be4c200d5a70684e
font_01_sfnt_off0001af49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001c760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C760 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 59f1eb29ca6ebb8b8c0acd0a672a2599b30b3b5592545bc308f471c869fee628