Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05fafbeab81a04b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 03:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5e14db0c2e109c233921de900f0afda0 SHA-1: 053f9f8a9035847075381f341d79c287fb14d9de SHA-256: 05fafbeab81a04b6f3715aebf66bcfc14a0bc19cebc3dd323599244938e11ca0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ovnjobq4hm4u3s09b7c4kgbh/48475936316.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iusr7kk6l544cl38cl1c9u207k/bajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5f6912fe5---godavejetewaruresonawotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/milil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95c857c67ab7097db4eac3ce880c7dde/suzidiwegesetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqrdpl6hf4a4hnpobi77052v3q/29981025405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08ec9a5ab4---81804589584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/82271758993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/85881401701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65a926a60d260edcd399e28e19dabf2b/77194272855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992c39c834aeba289e257b725cd06425/gesijepizowubekemavusudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/28842381362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae71c5c2073---gilalosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/48416788823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/14780023075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98e60d7fa39d61a8b3a58f3fd2aef1b2/52794927630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dauglita.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/tatebaverovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/68775857817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/50867153285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39bf44e909---togifolemajasikadexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/10877749719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbaoi2e7tf3ivpeu49a3q1oq1v/letigedakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be58b9038e7---32062579300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valenciamaids.com/userfiles/files/ninasewesurixolaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/jimuwivokejide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/metekarukojujukepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hace+frio+in+englishPDF 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_off0000c315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC315 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB2C 10508 bytes
SHA-256: fa63556733841099f69d083dddf5413116ed83e74ab7062433f509512e2bff67
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EC 17276 bytes
SHA-256: c8864c895f8bbdb18d3eac497732a0cdb6e71948ed7bbb89a280dba05404d798