Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 856ea95acedb44aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:23:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b6b89f7c88627a3b0cca4c1c9834f3d7 SHA-1: a3669777baec4fbba2578c2f27605f7a953be62d SHA-256: 856ea95acedb44aa561524a773cfdc7b8e697ceed322deb0660fa4b0aab897ad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically points to this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51981047585.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1600ab180---89612409287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/bekimatipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/46664015483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f207fbd4e43dae89118f8c6e72d23ca5/96754380148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/lajopazidusipepaxitusoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/mavenazegezewanazurelozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608538787273c---23230554454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9504f64f43f2e9ca9c415abe3f94e6e6/zizajagefetisudelasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97678261809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/depadorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f87704ddd---39049242508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kugr2u2thjko6m5k2apgfm7o2p/14341178188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210709112443_a2lqdXRvc3U=.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28nm7ofhnvd6ag4aksin33h3ql/mojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/49592351086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles//file/bufovuzuzolurorizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c134d92c33d0b62c06d150c70f2bffb/dasosinaguputurapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9995571bb---sujitetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f73dae6303---4755024062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/vefijegokufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/99659970421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/92426192515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/91787476894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=basic+gk+questions+and+answers+for+kidsPDF 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_off0000ee35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE35 17872 bytes
SHA-256: ffa9ada062ce64f873a04fb3bd0da7d857e9836c821eb15445db0f8541a88752
font_01_sfnt_off00011ce6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE6 11080 bytes
SHA-256: e12f0e56683bdda42d06aa3b9d039fa12b437f60500bf84c68de7d4ff88ce6c7
font_02_sfnt_off00013684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13684 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1