Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d85c6cbeb9e9eb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 18:19:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5e3f58abc3f987191f70f3742a00b9d2 SHA-1: 1f3361f2bf8835bb9eede7c55f73e0d8a591e1da SHA-256: 1d85c6cbeb9e9eb5f50c61fab593fa5b3b3450b5ed9874453947e89a15a2073a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects to malicious sites, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd025333d4---nujokimupipebaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/timonepidalase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/el4nl6kv92nvh6g7rq77hc90mi/mugaxikusulovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87c96468512a2b6c682564839d6c3af6/dabonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads//file/bikasakaxuxulip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210515184757_xib3gr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///rebuvelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7120a951932b98a87829246cb34e96c/12216746208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63cbe27b8dd2295a24585415841a3c63/39007213488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4070e043083da18e17acc071816305f/purar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4292784cafb61ff3447521bc80f1f727/80863258180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivieahk.com/clients/5/51/51325344bd1517f257d6959d5350918e/File/vivuponobinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06de5dc59c6eae0ee7c52ad62abc5cbd/fapolorawozekokasoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607904e9797ad---migesumikurinurejosilakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/sajosiwujoxirolixixixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de056b18ec5---fonomodatatovufire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bbabf1aeee1a7aaf5b94df2f34701e2/7232992714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b4ba93571---xugalebudigaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efbe67ca3f---21999242287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d074284dbc---kokowikufiwugeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/duxinisananiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826b2e17465---78202772099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/pusibosowobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a4d42f54f5b1db8935e55ab3cc765e/pijiruterolanekojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+same+answerPDF 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_off0000f420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF420 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C32 28016 bytes
SHA-256: fb6a239045215c4da1f081acdf975e617687332e69c898dd566a2ea742f17ea0
font_02_sfnt_off00014ba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BA5 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 8e006311947ac9cedc80f98c51097e40d9a23908f49e1cb4128cbc0912e165dc