Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b05d72af3d950452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 10:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a6494d29c3a24a4f705b719420e0f432 SHA-1: 3e84d54c9a9e0bc326199c83fc991781064f728b SHA-256: b05d72af3d95045230b408a3516c08408da9af73e1034becc33874db8e433bc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains identified as disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload locations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be directing users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://epmachine.ru/d/files/21056697043.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setolidefupovubasosexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385c9f28251---sudegubevajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://way-of-spirit.ru/upload/file/zabosupujopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/kewose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/14884707132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/jonikibosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48345645399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909064357335019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47195091648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/musiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0801d92fc05a22f1a6e9dcfbd1662539/94195873385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vkgnassociates.com/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/gamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302245c179b---71524361204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/94274353758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mothertheresapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/votako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/sazujawatopuxitupedoxifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/72832616777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/tepefekagugejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limberhurstgallery.com/imageuploads/file/39876763021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/miwekajevire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210910130541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bd92e1538---kalusugibena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maquinandoysubastando.com/dleyes/admin/fotos/file/xojoleximusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=a52+vs+reno+5PDF 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_off0000b25e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB25E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA75 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 624761068e8be97c44885ff8fedd9594aaa0e2173115a1e489ef9e5568fd2773
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E1 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 455742a1dd4cf6162313754f52948f789d4c8d6f76ff96e59128d19e54877e40

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