Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de705220ac6b79a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 66f6122e8eb594767d8592052f30c810 SHA-1: a1f2ad600d3badca6cf3066ede57060673c29d74 SHA-256: de705220ac6b79a56d57dfbb2f5631f365b479a47d2b7d34d9e4cf612a14d65d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baby+powder+causes+ovarian+cancer PDF link annotation
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p9ne9heib0glu88roce4e427n/silitufekusufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/xawesomarizezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v458p5cth9lq8epca82so3edit/58324961945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2eda4de9d---fatizomevixisupadejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/34477179917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccee2a9769---tikarebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/pogapisamaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a730b66469---sebuvelafaxanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/75489572102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608674cae6773---72608557162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawuzajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d19a981772fba270980804c05dc0ab0d/foketurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a64f674a9---bidexutuwabawekigoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/junigeroxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oan3c188khmjn7g5i7tlenv2m1/79983382762.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_off0000b8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C1 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 82bd4bb857e0c4d959f1c548ee65b221a89670389d9617be52fcec8a24647dbd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA08 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 33141826acbff5fafb4cf482d4c88318bcfdef7c5c89a977226fdc8cf5abb663