Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05f6922d311d6bf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e07d423bc43db02b996eaab6c39efb83 SHA-1: f152552abca3a898088b8d83d09d0262b4843e3d SHA-256: 05f6922d311d6bf8fb7dad012968a28300e0be9463a04439304ec8971c20f4f5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with several unknown reputation URLs. The embedded JavaScript stream suggests potential malicious scripting capabilities. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa1086918---39099218885.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelebagenadobazufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210818022102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89fa0632af---bubitozefijofobagumeputo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/sigaresetazirisofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901031502882575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/sitatadodugopuluzume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608adcc35db4c---bofare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210608140843_j0dvt4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/40919419123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/28434197676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/87841483131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408tjitpjrts35h64kerf1oje2/31554530463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/71109212258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kp-technik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepiripupigixixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/laderowabufezozaduxudax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2101e5452---rafitewopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/64102002731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/41323251400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/lavoxujudibopulakutuzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_03CF056C46414B52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429b796ace2af0b3be542044c2ee83d3/fefuxajufamepige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67f3791a645906452e0be37b4cc910a8/najenafomokexolanawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33048046268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/58405543332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+engineering+thermodynamics+problems+and+solutions+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_off0000b950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB950 11416 bytes
SHA-256: b37d037caa94e60f74516e29e4f14489757e2270bf5143ceb8346462151318e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A0 16916 bytes
SHA-256: e39a9575c6adbbb5e11517105e31ff1ec7fd926480ffe227e5cdbf1ad44b2a91
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1