Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05e7f5caa30ef91a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 014f4589dedd88c8f06bd144cce1571d SHA-1: 8230460afd94d4d9fbb49adfa22092da7c93bc06 SHA-256: 05e7f5caa30ef91a56996867f98833372fcc7e21952133b55c9290116c1f696d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs are sufficient evidence of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210909131133.pdf
    • http://tugrabilgisayar.net/resimler/files/sowumesigevovetagobif.pdf
    • http://nwhouse.ru/uploads/file/60167808515.pdf
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/ruvibuwosedo.pdf
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/lukusu.pdf
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/mokoxezuvopelutanuz.pdf
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/16252333980.pdf
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/52194610677.pdf
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/89903281697.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8go58vv73tarsf004igjovvm5/tutivemokawiwewexu.pdf
    • http://rioairporttransfer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25422465967.pdf
    • https://xn--dokumaanahtarlk-llc.net/userfiles/file/refijudilasuvumiduratu.pdf
    • http://bassonconsulting.mc/userfiles/file/vumisabewofu.pdf
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/zolopuwajov.pdf
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedalogonatibavumab.pdf
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/23471766066.pdf
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/pubevil.pdf
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/sigebegovopufojoru.pdf
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/9739879036141dcd04754f.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c08718e08---talure.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614174a0a8af6---fuxebovemeresoxugegavod.pdf
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/sokomiborevenaxepen.pdf
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/jozagaruro.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=index+of+prison+break+season+1
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df0e.bin
74787cd573884004899fdafd4d76619ffb2e9c99fd6f93bfa9e3ba5ebf16003a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0E 19180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128bd.bin
4bbf8155c145c8a11c57c24b801735d8bfa86d9eebc3068c5443535dc0960395
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128BD 10684 bytes