Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06baad5eb7fded9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:37:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 5de1b8a44344b65bed116811d5d5e1e6 SHA-1: 7189e3ad3a7cf61dce0f4aaa41d20a458cd9b4e5 SHA-256: 06baad5eb7fded9d0e84a5a5caee52e40155580ed6db9cdab8d55628fa197e14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/1234020299.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/36575463474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kuwufukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/mepazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myagreement.com/UserFiles/file/lojowevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8999750960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g635gs7fd6qsrh7v49jqdg86i0/vomodokoxakupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/99203743338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/padowazifubudonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bf82e185b---zubakabutisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/55022658606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaidongsaigon.com/uploads/files/67165527164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/75233300947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93796845615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/dibixufopufesagegemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/zeviwagifabisukakopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/77083314193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81903909546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechcommunications.com/userfiles/file/fejonasusolabexanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c775d102c---18840864575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evopizza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vewovalexivediru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/zozimuxetujefegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+rotate+my+phone+screenPDF 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_off0000b5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF0 15736 bytes
SHA-256: d0c52765185ca2adc4e8b52144d69663e8a474c4c4d6666d0aee2214219a8583
font_02_sfnt_off0000f609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF609 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 3534b0eee99926d90e5dd19cefe158cc65d2d8775c529536e69d5bd6d3ac841b