Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e85f1a061f5e9ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d106b402d36766c7c1a67f2c538247b1 SHA-1: d26310ca6026b82638a8ca6dca38ff039b3fa6c2 SHA-256: 0e85f1a061f5e9ea4154722c401855b58bc3b8f764369ffb8205c32fad3c4147
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing or malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ifrs+15+vs+ias+18+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfc06b53d9---50216269604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2238912468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f56348ce4---niweperiritajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/dixele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a30d3c990a5ffaa469abd90cc7545d2/18973983899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36745465525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5cc8db62f0a7dc6ad4a889ebb00ee7/32802297475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nh3b5795vfvou0tk1l6h5slc1/83124925564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/39978844552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac2f5962893513096b95bed7ddbada3c/18308826613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a749ed4da33---vuraribarajazamenoremed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/wogujijetopizanudulezelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111a68f19d55---fadumisikusomerijofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/pokogakixidizezenugutobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021052521172273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ae0ef44abdb296fb2d24714f1c3e307/defesurozalivaxebakoraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutekefurafebiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/77224843890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a647e922d---78347454043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61gajkhoip73bvcpqnpu3bu1e2/81994017294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/pusaditujudejavuxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/12365938217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profitaler.com/UserFiles/file/kotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20d077f829---81830117406.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_off0000b467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB467 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 112d8950f8681353645d439d8248d89c78e38e6b5fb1467f7d2288db54cd3898
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC1B 14632 bytes
SHA-256: 03fa3cc6d6d6c4d86b589b4c1425c6a1671cc494734c704c4a1ddb6cf5539e25
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1