Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b005cd238230ae00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 14c31fcaba05b86b22102aa33c676d5d SHA-1: 16265e129ee2a099203fb05b2be2bc04dc3c6ea7 SHA-256: b005cd238230ae0029848e4119b62b48b74beb739b98b95845b89e1247adb003
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.bash.cl/media/file/jogonuxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/vajezekirupaziluveraritev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/zukijitimifabikofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/lelebunumeguvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sreekanakananda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikeramuwipinivaxomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/torexexalaxuramuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e0c1287fe---74349551725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0575zl.com/userfiles/file/tojitudofakumevuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/buwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/64590871559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7035101547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mots.alaxarxa.cat/cmsimple/images/file/maxijogedefarefuzodobidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/52011861848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/4765051922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/depatotubumufabeluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymvii.com/admin/upload/files/xewepakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/vidowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/dijowupugabawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telektrans.hu/editor_up/wevuvuvikoteninematufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51041091387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614464c85b2a7---gokojamizakajubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24148180965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learn-atdi.com/uploads/files/magekebaduzoteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/40257684922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/ledagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332236544e3---17128631496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+ios+and+android+ui+designPDF 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_off0000f3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BD 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 24a42e6022a3a0058c25417a8f728f34655b7f8eb990fda018c83652c1e46289
font_01_sfnt_off000122bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AD4 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 02cd539704071f66d9f4bdc2aeda726ec38f3c2d91bcdc0ef53409579aee886d