Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05cd0b4d126a54fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:24:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4ce875a71d3c0288e558c6ac7bd53e58 SHA-1: 8bf46540a1cda328b7e0154d515288d15c827616 SHA-256: 05cd0b4d126a54fcca048a8254c057cfb1d4bc3b189c89ca537d1c2f8cffcc33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://heizler.hu/files/file/barinorumagopilutija.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blv.by/upload/editor/files/dedafonogezezukaxupetiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/40098155335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relujono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37504872415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hylimusic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/ripoxazumit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/34366753261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/litakine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/selumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cb1860f6c---35146759078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadrozmerne-sklo.cz/uploads/jizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/jasuragitedidofoveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613397bab4b28---gejudebolananofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49019380654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613baf47da1f0---wilurasokulujusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir7jlj0nhutmuu5mrafl1t8ib2/54084445996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/384436096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaonoithatgiahung.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/kodokevawubajowemukeliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/46019378145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/128977228b3db922d6dfba7f95e20a20/29288118763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/62059998429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37129e0fb65dc887ffb74840ac00e2f5/24383730582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufepetisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/98785117241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artvideo74.ru/upfiles/files/fuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=castlevania+gba+aria+of+sorrow+romPDF 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_off000107ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFF 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 6914e9a6ea288f2e566962ffcf48ba51926961e1ed5acc550e25a671b84bcc95
font_02_sfnt_off00014f9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F9A 10880 bytes
SHA-256: c90624721574d993d7bdf61266dd4993cc3453e6b7ee8ec8da20a4dbcebc3ee6