Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b05843e41207551c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 22:16:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1b70e7a18e6414121993395dffa28590 SHA-1: cb380d2e344e4131e1f2e5025950a3a17acdd58e SHA-256: b05843e41207551ca630324ff43946ab24ff420edaf2ab9cde5c1c6fffac66f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=khi+cho+axit+aminoaxetic+t%C3%A1c+d%E1%BB%A5ng+v%E1%BB%9Bi+ancol+metylic PDF link annotation
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc806772323f8e01ec5be11e5be8fbb/zonaniwazetopiwosono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/sapumire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/65533423811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmmorv8oc2gqkuo2lh3n7dvsdp/xawusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0108ebfc0cee321f871adeb393fbe678/tudebipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e3328a550---xuvepesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/wuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/652cc0cac293304b569223c372699d22/bokekunurugubimulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/85852957024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79405c56109495a30190e68a4e8993e5/xobedaxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090df2c12ce4---paxekodusupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rv9ud79hra4emqgssfp0p7f79/tapebigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/12729308698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88eddtai1rv313tev352t5o1eq/37818926273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f92e2b4d461---32881739457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qoumqlc1tiqj3nlckk80ee9imk/wogimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda0e67113dd40ea301d7c793608a71a/57091937317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e9d5de7f1---wadufezoxifotebomirolomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d2651db39---napijala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c4b8e5b3---6306940802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/99720375619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/renadibipezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6b1f73d625---28180390138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/83719252398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c7f86ccf6bf7ff3cf74ae6f2311cc7b/19987882067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F8 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 681d265a797b0afcdf668fca3660bc8e302bc07c19125396050fdfbdc07db314
font_01_sfnt_off000100bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BB 28028 bytes
SHA-256: 6a9638fd6b279d921767cdbacf0da5eeeecf3f966182e7cdefb17ef9ac3f24c8
font_02_sfnt_off00013b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1