Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a05fa9eab4ffcf02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 15:51:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4fc6a136a996323d8d1b806621aaef30 SHA-1: af288f7216d70bcd3eead528efa27656a963d8df SHA-256: a05fa9eab4ffcf02c07f830865a6e36ffb13b4f3da1ad3ae38f39b75c989dd73
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a byproduct of the wkhtmltopdf tool, rather than user-readable content, reinforcing the lure aspect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/kijukasexilovisimurum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohk6nn2mflcg45btmtdmonb6tv/worefavagureluri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webkapper.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muluronenabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/xodukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilcfcostruzioni.com/userfiles/files/94504287918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202109091612063199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/44796882145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397b2fb0b25---54983361739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devitohomesorlando.com/userfiles/files/61076492424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/86532940872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/zenazexisawumunisaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/88646172090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/retifutofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/84175340220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunsin.net/userfiles/file/30242871147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriplan-rs.com/dados/ckfinder/files/rofulepuzekoduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202109041105286554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsytech.com/upload/files/29122038936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c95241faa---81262567999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neo-net.info/giganet/files/file/zodojatunekegixoruxegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/pupewurujajewimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=madden+20+download+androidPDF 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_off0000ab17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC32E 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 15f436c612e36be4000e376c670e484b2a063c87f7f55c1e19a8261ebfcbd3db
font_02_sfnt_off0000da7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7C 14420 bytes
SHA-256: f0ba320d921c3f78706bf32ce14fcdaf5e7c5552cabc92739e977f6f29c174e5

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