Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ad85f0cf64e040b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e4e673afa0b2e5e2652b2547827a2c2f SHA-1: 63dad49a01201d684752f940233802d9ff7986af SHA-256: 1ad85f0cf64e040b14b04c4a856eae1584d149e4ed9be5514df43b2a6c6ac998
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to exploit users by redirecting them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=award+wages+nsw PDF link annotation
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087714232423---kipedavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a861509190d---96191765843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckv9elaphos0t07qs272ujc21f/86260568026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a240ba8d18e---dipomuvuwawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/53209015800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088df72a449e---7035947575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/tigagixojenafoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/76574266092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termocity.by/pics/files/suzekupubasone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/94928900546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/38474624325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a644ca8b10---pujalogulitaxibirovumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090688c9caa6---jivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d13e4d37c435bf7d467aed740d52eabe/detanexepumetotizogukiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918b4241bb8---69960693748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a72460c18e98d075228e0241ad41ffe/95378711310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/19439518939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/70527837954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/21615276748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92d7aae3dd1cb591977c00013816c2c7/zebotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ca73e0b68---7154899291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf7ec18339---4155976579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg9emltongfrhkfgu7nu1ikrcr/45526949399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a56797001---girosakowuranudelejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9m54h63uvo54ote0t4oelpmqi/mavixinoloterogizutafo.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_off0000cd65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD65 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 61983da107c3b6929b3c6a3ef68a8082959c65efb27b7811023671998c675525
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F9 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 6f2adcc528b160c218cbec80fc8c514e86329d501b299e7238cf05e98ca39fa2
font_02_sfnt_off00010d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1