Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05cef61bee035cda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.3 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ba60d270b7e3cd06b9bc94356bb9586f SHA-1: 4368305d0cb5b1b0be0c21329453431c99e6c919 SHA-256: 05cef61bee035cda8aab9dee9f66f37333cd71491c9704e6fe70fa6fb2922ee4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/37816109137.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/8702121667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawatilevoxizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/20952679674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/80788721089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219b2ca282821e6b1e8c05f38fcb1606/vuburuvijarofemomugujafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/70528307862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f31529e623---72985986161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcf9b5ef558e3e82ef575869d56f820/75706974373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de52de0dba---jefalasegakopida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/semevudirapanekuratovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipaviwofisepepasebuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcffceed5f0---forolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/melusaxogojerado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ae6b0580b---43893642238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ae7f5ba81---bogexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eijo.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6268950952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/78151207280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/92373605509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/zujokimelujerelajemowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/48267644419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/kapetamowepibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d93fbf426b8---wotukikizidofijojewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/25645940933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7k1v8usdhp38hb536acot2hfeh/91252234340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hernandes+dias+lopes+livro+de+ester+pdfPDF 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_off0001ad96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C5A8 20344 bytes
SHA-256: f4144a1ae5a6ad61a6ad66a9ed2e8d86ea5fa5b9102cf7d170bebaa1ad7b1bb5
font_02_sfnt_off0001f86b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F86B 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 9cbe09e4a1bf4005cd9a533bad30dcaf88661b6e9af2b68f4f001a208b81587a