Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e05c1c3b5f556f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-10-07 08:37:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 26896e1491d4af2882fb856e1a04bdcb SHA-1: 4bc096407e04d30e282f71b8187485a741d82c1b SHA-256: e05c1c3b5f556f91c7e3d167e61330e4b5a7f0144996340dc45b4e4144d0b86a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://alebusph.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/xusenibadilajoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210907_091442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/fifaludofikutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/xifemune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/19560346866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/files/fubitowibora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/9041561230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/pewawovipodorato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16b46c74a87530a83b6eb04668422d17/53195608639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/3874940941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/vebedovurejewoneviwinesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99218083809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/39984845105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/29587017436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/8697075499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615af0132ec91---26325590537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexawimujezowovubidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/61024633074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615afa870efd7---27020985314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150e730d4ae8---reteditetatof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/sutapopugodiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/zidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/79178251332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/35607650159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mortgage+interest+reliefPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93dceb7bfcc749519b0e4d42439c67f0/motubasawodidute.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_off0000de6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF684 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 0b7aab3d5a4b3ee7629c87f22375b83751c32964db691b5112a69383e22a7af5
font_02_sfnt_off00010e23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E23 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 69c673406430441a975b5ab20cd77234f0f3355bdce289986831481b8696d7e0