Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05e75b2cf7f07d47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:34:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 45ae443e77310f5a380911023df2aecb SHA-1: 690ecbbd155f2d6729858e823d8e01be54d04257 SHA-256: 05e75b2cf7f07d47f36c377da70b5d3dafce6f2f8dcc23aa6f19379ce193a2b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as link farms hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://avela.md/userfiles/file/35307669007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/noxezuzawonezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/fuvixixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/49798933724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210902104503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/melodaxuxetanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimicahj.com/admin/userfiles/userfiles/file/lenuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/gogatadiwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilartangguh.com/file/24887867173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jo8osu0scn7dc9jl7vnsq0ko3/27508440636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/fusenibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141199c2db51---nupopogipefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanxuatbanthinghiem.org/app/webroot/uploads/files/48332906159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/sirafowekuwaminafibikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/vodolekiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/70554250465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a5b8869dc57001ccd52fd48514bbd0e/xugife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/97756352141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gejezebozuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/14542922168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleri.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61799510624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/girepepepipijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio4.com/contents/files/21599502715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/fizemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1f241d2f2---88445811457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mario+kart+64+cheatsPDF 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_off0000d823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD823 18304 bytes
SHA-256: e0ac882c5138ebebf27020f54d882560140dc392a8b1290674bd4dd68b030204
font_01_sfnt_off00010798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10798 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 4b6d3dd9300a6227fe75c1051107b7ef32f8035168fc0ad66cbf80c29213d608
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1