Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 855eb77f5d18986e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-08-17 11:49:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d620836bd930e8bbfca5d64e9226c2d1 SHA-1: 36f787ac22b8871687d496d61ac18ea39f6d80e4 SHA-256: 855eb77f5d18986e6a5b474499800147763d35df1fc1501f2810f0d928322887
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210616_072232.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/lexuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2aketv2qmnicb66kieqhj9bjc/vagebafagabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1bac4a855d7c31d57ae677224fddda/nonujobasifipozagebubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d00631e405940702bca9e2eae9a24b2/zazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/96374565312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/buxowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tudanukajibutuvosumopoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopewenutilofuxixeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/losep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0885b70d2b7325ae4cdaf7fad618750/76532417383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c339468a7371f7b7e6bd5793f442fe/61741186763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190f6bab229c358b2a6c9cf3cbd0a078/19232916117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f30ecb7c9e7---60740432348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/47565003640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e74e3927840---64309830416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9445024af3---numem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b725798e7cc---46007042654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e92b5bdd1---nolirumajexezase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e16967585---31722618710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fdae85522---werobugasedoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607473a4000cb---ninekotumetozojujatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/52037820486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/xegisapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9053d0d1ea---64535621539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=intermediate+1st+year+maths+1a+textbook+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000daf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF0 15640 bytes
SHA-256: 3e8f0da32805fd9dd5da17893c37cdeccf8ee6424b896fb1c134394e00a1700f
font_01_sfnt_off0001031d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031D 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 6881cb04d4320249c7552e67e46467a35eb5152aeed4caaf3cf0b16b050cbdfd
font_02_sfnt_off00011d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1