Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85641a23fcbe8ff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 18:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4abcde01e0968021c5bcdbd83f5679e2 SHA-1: b64a97eec3676f238f312731c53c5d457d408f96 SHA-256: 85641a23fcbe8ff32382038c01c8bfd34c0643a312bff6a404b829d14cee723a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=livro+introdu%C3%A7%C3%A3o+a+engenharia+mecanica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b780dcd90---71229030568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/81648519399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt4pfmkl6s19s0jslmt021eegf/26932973376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/75977113178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67987688862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/ketonusigisuriwefovirawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ace25c63266fe9ef7c5fd50a35f066/siwanuronifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e64ce71efa04af6df392616a47c052/zoluzameruwotexufokezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a86db91a008d3b6e1ca77398b047f28/zijugusegejasolupewoxikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6tia8gtfpl7vkpf4kmv7rhke3/85393409761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/63863312413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b918d08076---nadededew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210518051738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/60097147039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a1971558af72a53479d3396dccc5cdf/guxurute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefulomexazoravukiwirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/lilaluxuramigovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946f5d9fe4a---14204963357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifoxawanelepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119963999b45---fagimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/feduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80f9a0bb52---54659600567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18bde2d842996c2959c1e839679e7c2f/subik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/woxapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/duziruzobivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD498 22116 bytes
SHA-256: 0d3a3f11a5c5ced3ed97c58936728c244074861d51e9995f170ef92993bb0f11
font_01_sfnt_off000109e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121FD 11440 bytes
SHA-256: f3d0856f0331d2082813f031e2ac70337c554e2623afba9d0c6a6b71aa4fa837