Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85450a8ddf83da71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:37:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 35872aa714d304a19aecbd9fd8677afa SHA-1: 02059435eb37c4a955d761c6439745bb003c7a74 SHA-256: 85450a8ddf83da71399365c4044eb7e5ad0d64438ea8ec3728b55ef7e1c81ff4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/85207561391.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/managowiwadadoderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b95611eab---59135148423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://encino.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/lofumedumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/pebasonetoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a4a9a5fcee65a492003553e118e193/vodusizamubeduseged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/44911637584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a7588abf9---18496039234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86000532120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viorina-deko.com/images/file/zododigogitovixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d7b64c05b---53911134166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agadih6khifm22ms0agj4m0gc6/60514148964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://74ahs.com/clients/2/2a/2a132ee8da0778863662fd4b1fa251ed/File/pusubijuzilazujutudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55d98b62a0---tojidunodixeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aalatour.com/basefile/b2caalatourcom/files/nafasejesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb68fb9305---lojagetofufojawexesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63e728c93a---27028120122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/61867037804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/50420372346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125b4f50a01e---66868028655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/37629167199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30061026621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+shop+security+tagPDF 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_off0000ea9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B0 20840 bytes
SHA-256: 9ee18a9e93f83adaca584db3f3f93e92ff04e890212a0aa3ba67600e73ac0358
font_02_sfnt_off0001370f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1370F 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6d07f2ac58c2580f962a38bdbf672c06ac3f542f9b436f1d4f5c3f86c263b3