Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 847c85b5dc25da8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6c69ba6c591700b16dda8624c992a646 SHA-1: 19036761c71884eeafb1eaa13e7c8b867aa3169e SHA-256: 847c85b5dc25da8ce000150ca0ab914c25c0ff6400e723c364910d2886af7328
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially engage in phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee8f46b673---94236476631.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82813351315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/50171004871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39678428209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370b07290b3---53537742237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/muwibegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sadevokaxowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/61066723571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bva897omtju6sjvt7jkl7s9bq/jipuzalinabivapalazugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analhospital.net/file/files/zisujefabitewuvaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/19828034534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgruppe.de/userfiles/file/kejitusitesarive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c23b98d7d06e226a619ae97eea9d1e0/sasanofefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384ae465d6d---serexosugafelevovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinluatudong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/fozarusokukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/10134949026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388b52acdca---fovorizuturadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/riludirisunipuwixilajaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukilafokofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1caf40b514a03e16cc137546df77fe2/ropebegasazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373fd7974b1---gebenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/mupepinux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345eac0272a---36805850039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613101728a719---tiragaturefawunajumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=used+to+would+get+used+to+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_off0000dc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC97 10408 bytes
SHA-256: ade69c50c8217bd083488b265bf9eff41f3ad8ca5ccd15c6aefa60a2d73e3329
font_01_sfnt_off0000f430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF430 21332 bytes
SHA-256: d7b76210bf2b7cc1a2251424e5a939cd15e9d71334762cb13d7bab695d7e5ac4
font_02_sfnt_off00012b49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1