Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f05f5318a511c1ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 23:50:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bed9c70682cdad596dd77ffe0d9cc921 SHA-1: fffb1ba606496d8315e95b0da73cfffb959016a2 SHA-256: f05f5318a511c1cafd52e8fad43903a7d9a44975eee96833f112858e34af80f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33953788542.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094958b01ad7---zafigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pju3q8r91ftrq816asus0h8vh5/39173773021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/77301498151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/lijenovami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/masadaperixenuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/11413585192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676ba96f03e7e77e7071ec0180643197/79273899748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/zibelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u94lsoaetqqd4b3fc1hvdt2jn5/12716807694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/368049842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbgv87ls6kgehrsmapmuh38lq3/29327151490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab854a06af---mepukilokapakaxote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85nujkq2begrdp8jms6sb859v3/tunovizanolunozovojoxasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitt.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22191124284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4c4115661---domapisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/4405647101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08m0nkmcc215hp15u245sfbu9/wunego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg8vqnrh9beoffa63crcjvf4pu/wozikufigutoromuxozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoastlist.com/userfiles/file/22529670159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/sufegikobukezosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hn94eomsrmka42m1ge2veim8h/66647430454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ebf1c6c3a---36529050195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillmanfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b7385abc5988d1ee605fea7695e3d00e/File/vogami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=who+or+whichPDF 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_off00011e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E12 20068 bytes
SHA-256: 4ff7d221a1d74901af42371db93bb5dbde8450b634ea9f42bbd8a336e1a41059
font_01_sfnt_off00015189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15189 9696 bytes
SHA-256: 4c99fdd2da40ca17490cee21d180b1ea99245adf3cad0090c3a5df6ef3bc0d0e
font_02_sfnt_off000166c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1