Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05d06d8773a98958…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 08:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6b828e51a9af8c49dca4fc89b6231157 SHA-1: a97dfeed333c27ea5c567ff9ab36d382ce3bed24 SHA-256: 05d06d8773a989582b4d72e0bee62a59bd80e63d517f3e4d0d15333858c50b5f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF identified by ClamAV and ML classifiers, containing numerous embedded links. These links predominantly lead to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of urgency lures further supports the phishing pretext, aiming to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+it+bad+to+use+too+much+icy+hot PDF link annotation
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/90809876253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607494bb6fe08---10465299499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunigixinezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/xapizajurikarafiwomidugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f17b47b72e---24307613601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/midotifirawamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valdisieveshopping.it/file/reroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rannatennis.ee/data/upfiles/files/37217124843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327451ff2418437fd75988f425a49750/5834397684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/zanasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/nabuvoxibokuwara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/61192643306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac686639d1---65896115568.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2fdba054b---vixafewazemepolutegiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/96412607244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607464060526f---mewojimekezutumatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/kibelinazufamuxotitarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/pitawajifuduwuvemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3fdb1302d---difuzodajofunigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t3umokrte7opnokd564h99lat/zinovonawisiroxile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/vuzudasila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e160ede5f---nigatajukudamot.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_off0000f3ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BA 10692 bytes
SHA-256: cfabc7a6a7aba8f0e4c52f4f7ffb3edf7abd335d94f598db6c4138cb2e085cf9
font_01_sfnt_off00010c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12467 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 8b7307510ea539304526b1e0bc012a9908f93e2d8b0000d085cf4af5b9821671