Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0605fd12a83682c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:57:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 98365cde97672cc610c72d083e61719b SHA-1: a2f3ece4dab98288951d92723fd45811efe095c5 SHA-256: 0605fd12a83682c933039e983090f7b048e3766ea6e2274b2970fea14e315a81
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'QR code lure' heuristic indicates the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, a common tactic in phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4912a88fa---xusewa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/22109624224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255c4b0c0ac1617b482b8de175f814ab/35045952421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/55427063520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92ad166c89956e17524d0fb6dd5e0c2/tesikodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/95893823742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areopag.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/vopudibakebikadukufezuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/12316642846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/31776360591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/61664165276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pierrelemagicien.com/userfiles/file/guxekerumumerini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea5a9c8e12---15419133395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88370450663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busukanov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb633aa690---xofibizenakulifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/zisudemowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/19329357176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbbs.hr/files/14275503056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373ed02258a---gozoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/26924724279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/55017382864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/roluzovemowosogusamasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/xekiwafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/pefenuwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/74248317499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+scan+wifi+qr+code+on+iphonePDF 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_off0000e125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE125 18204 bytes
SHA-256: a078b7a70b54a150cfa14b013ad66af5243dd4adce76a4cfddc62ad0d32e56b2
font_01_sfnt_off00010faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C6 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 98b920c6990cf7705de7050560d33cade51b2a6953adf256238df114eb56d6d4