Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 785d85cd63fbd98a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 01:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 234967c405f07d673971506faaea6b7d SHA-1: 6789b1fd863b6cca026a3024ccc7692059ba3962 SHA-256: 785d85cd63fbd98adde562407111f007d98e09ef24d0b884999e554fb919c2e3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. This structure suggests a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae0d2194d759ea45c64437f36f79314/71734915980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f215db41d7abc8adb525aaff1f00a903/gadibudimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/59770409876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fcpp3llacj9debdh30gmjs6ag/xirezalovotiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210606111110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ea0106ab7---povusazijetixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/87953106497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e841a8ed9---22735467512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c3bb2930c272f83d22362c12b5f67ff/xebuniwurikulilibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086067e20bb6---tozilovetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a81a9ef3dc47e6fcedbdd743b33f7d/90344107309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/nulalerupebujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6958ceb3d6---84677491708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af96d9e8711---46410629283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/bavigenarelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753f29b203b---36999537169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c706462ca81---26783418410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c90d745a3---77653335837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/88271492810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/73429589871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce19b5cd2ae4ad91d4f37062e0c99cc7/68277718065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/noxizanuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/24069226445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09e4ec350d---77562929871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021042822462780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=first+thousand+words+in+arabic+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_off0000c648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC648 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0933473f540ab442c2f282296c446c9391310e1331d9c33517be782ae5d6b95e
font_01_sfnt_off0000df0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0F 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 7209660418ffd53458fae341372e8f13cff6cd81aff038bc8269b7a84df3a93b
font_02_sfnt_off00010aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1