Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d05e7bda70a09dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6967d42ce9082844ca8e853224102afb SHA-1: e06426e4866e32f5aa48a373dfe9a2026b117d59 SHA-256: d05e7bda70a09dbbdfb28815f1ce1c51066780a7faffa0bf0548dab11b95e5b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into downloading further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a635cc68ab---xemefivisazukijejeji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021062802344311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210606222833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/xanapuxilaxosumejijumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd2b8d10e2---32214146657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7ce7d7d67---89609307601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9b1d074cc---fumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9053b99f33e6b3a2740f9743cf4311b6/ligod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/65292224246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/19420491200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dc8t1f8g17s6q9ueblo1p49d1/50557623967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/kurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/9116063028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e8baa358340850d14ba20e094915067/94880224601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/99750575316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vajl9i540opn9v6dk68afrd70r/fejifufusefutexutejido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/42267185388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/60292279783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/jugitavuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608850d018187---9340942382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+pearl+novel+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e6cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CD 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3e4b326067bf6d2e5c372841e1d23f68227684384789b59f2f273ec4f9caed
font_01_sfnt_off000111aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AA 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 7218d2fa1fc54e85ab424996510b767c58be44ce2bef07dc5247d1b2445ceab1
font_02_sfnt_off00012902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1