Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 105c475b6d4dd04b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:04:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f06c1a0086208dc24781bd909c8fe75c SHA-1: bf75c5747681c990546b33b9120988cf93102a5d SHA-256: 105c475b6d4dd04b3ef48aca5ac33acb7c4feeebbda70321ac43bf1244a3eb03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/58177473750.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04472ef83de81954dfb8c97d0351f2e0/82621697559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/bivopisexekigovivimaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/61286555318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/51473913005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umhouses.com/uploads/files/51516222235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f4c1af32306536b220f2589baf7f64/sipaseviramisojujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/fixikijuzemebamutevevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521db8ea71429ce6a59c6bbd33925771/52467619891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/zodore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607625e988118---fefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac422d1b3bd---45215065281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46cc4d42405ee19d3bfa1da8a888a2c5/rafabikonafonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/88746337238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/43592887351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e285707120d5e3b47fa60aea68c46b06/botivasozalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c16cfedb65---xovemufazugosive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/meturozimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/zaxuguwulaginokizarixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/pobamufamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a271c6d298f---gudefosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca1edeb8877a4be253d583c96252a99/26680154796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobedovutogabizilave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8a86c654912312699446d98900405b/18248515858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/39180938042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziva-muzika.cz/files/file/zawakipunatuvoxuzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=oral+and+maxillofacial+surgery+clinics+of+north+america+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_off0000e3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AC 17128 bytes
SHA-256: d43c7b73e283029933408c92b1ccfc33a01676d35e6d12b96818a59d84fb9de0
font_01_sfnt_off00011048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11048 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001285f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1285F 11408 bytes
SHA-256: ef56937222ed8cb122bf45e5ca3ca851a51084067fb99fd68090f0ed08d33563