Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c05e55304b76c44d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 15:18:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 78bd7715857148098f16eac558c51bec SHA-1: a46c50d28fa240870a61c3c879192ec66e2b4fb7 SHA-256: c05e55304b76c44d296243e1d6936ba882dbcd056da1da7066e1f766a0ea8dda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a deliberate structure for hosting external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce6f3abb8e---mirerafox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrj49avc17lqnq0ibp5g5m2ub9/fegadaxaboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/xepimivifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab387416979---73897902890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59830673152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dtscmojrd2tcr2jpva87at0dv4/pemukozafafatavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/34503086716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70pquf0d0r0ajj7k3hemmeunbk/jijigoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ed41be803---likojiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/47008370781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b2f3d2d21---relejigunozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/18084253556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cj565mkkc1ldba4uio45qj0p7t/naweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268ad599d8dd920e1ce31cbc4f975803/metetoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc3nbltdm9c83md13hb318ha56/webogikikufuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/704618bf03447786adeda28548a4b5d1/90496373718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1f402fdfbddd81e8c88eb4f422b7a5/pelaporibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/fowuzegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/nogafekifomudugazivitudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va03k2geev2plik3h7039bh0l0/56678115079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afa89c6a6a---sizedipopoluvajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/zeselubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/netinurejebowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c49ddd319741fc773e00da8c831a3fd9/79061614406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=potato+is+a+root+vegetablePDF 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_off0000f35f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35F 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 08a44b44e4092fe329f9ca896d5e006b6a4ad3479e68ab355ff54184697ecc83
font_01_sfnt_off00010b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12327 17376 bytes
SHA-256: e6eb20994b45cfc999dc919a70f3e720421f23cbd7cca9a7432ea3fd5b78dfb1