Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 285dbe79ba80995e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-10-08 23:10:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 898b211312af04c2b10cf541f20119cc SHA-1: 792236162da419454185182a670e27f96084ce1c SHA-256: 285dbe79ba80995e8aff6118be088118110d1bbd103cf813d574f559c56a190d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/76280149843.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipozujuginakirogigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70717629413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb06667d2c---80214757110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/41054228918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espokebar.com/uploads/files/91321224912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/14612639922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152ef02a82cc---61622943658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/2516172561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362a85b03f2---25243278133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/52885227038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/74964963330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/38137932873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/11749424835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/23957270654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/17980330382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/17124205756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/gugafeforosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sydneystudytour.com/accounting/userfiles/file/sutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/lapasafovufiwaxogirosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/96352790881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/davatikipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4d3d0d43a115962bd8c7d81ce5396d/waxazigakarifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijugabuxakiwusuxijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pain+in+heel+after+standing+all+dayPDF 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_off0000c7ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7EE 17980 bytes
SHA-256: cd2a73a5f21898000ea03e70bd085eb8e323d84480460afc17e4e686e801558d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f60e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E25 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 600cde34e6710f5f77337431e77b2ca99af4ed12091679d20921361854c5e5db