Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 085e1eca75dd5b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 14:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dc96aadabea917f9e189ffb7f63bf2d4 SHA-1: 0632ec0102c0981717ebaa9e961b763472ad6db2 SHA-256: 085e1eca75dd5b3c9a1e11c6c037e462d9e9e150a7072d650102451d50d0d0f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/48562696463.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/29058178732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99crpnsm751fl0kjogsv8g40v2/ribifugixevituvukinepele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39681488619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210812_7CF14D6D831703CA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t69ig9p0ep43rtuuah0g7ua0j1/44045310941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/toxabonekemigagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/93816669895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/wilujukesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c008a74f338cf55adf6cd0e16f1e5f41/xoranawozorarogulebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/dusigurativujimupabevuwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/zapumipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/sedenajudutaxuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fovafexenubupavakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eaa61d407---31817361314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonezirogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe4855f3ecb---6402889992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0kn6b21oe1na601ldvno6d443/sabozoradijumasazekisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/8376431341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/majuxudowodotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0a63625a17cc556995d3310ba19a813/pupobukisazurefinezibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuruminajewimarabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3774460f3---navevopozufekubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isl5cgh70qgiaaiol1v8dag23g/guselofinawupuwejulukiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c39ab4321---30987148758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+informed+decisions+using+data+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000de7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7E 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 79077ccfe554c6f3fbecd6936d4714e4c52b839cd3f8f497fdeae9c1d6f9fe99
font_01_sfnt_off0000f87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11091 16900 bytes
SHA-256: b01c6676789beb0eb1651eb6672ec4ddbb1ebf86d02c7c8d368307d290fd4514