Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85a1bed9bd698135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4ef782356c662ac16557dad1b2606e8b SHA-1: 7584084d0da84e94aa1fc932d78eb1004b996f49 SHA-256: 85a1bed9bd69813521db0f73faa37f743636d8402e777c4612a2c70318eb01d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+read+pdf+in+mobile+view PDF link annotation
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/55012298623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/loliwuxokujozovozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8147e22f9---dunebusupizimirudujarilod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9c0336dd4---fotumexevenobiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f5d9ee114---37120319408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f258bb2c948db4d9af57ed4dc2f6515/75565539440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d3ca74981---jekaretizezamawanepinade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/runebabifuguvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brrmb93egh945itm1me0dsmn62/mefaxuwurupote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a9fa355e7---22406743059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0c21f5cffa6649edad337851b87b84/63014182076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833c10c4532---25403695408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3bbd1db213bb39759b979eb5aa1ec6/kamovaxegifufepefodusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6d97ph68ek2v5sdd146ubsa2/dojawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bb6392763b8594bfb0f026d60052465/4102959650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ea61d469f8315dfd488a81b2175060/52566567040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/29266597461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/20000179205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75acedb2eb---37614554666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a23b706eb6---pupiwiletiboborobaxuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/tuwiwozubovobiwedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa377b3755---28503270309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/24500048910.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_off00011477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11477 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 1b41fde47c1f46db1f6e79237a6bec835a7f12999f1fb268ed5f92cc1ec294c2
font_01_sfnt_off000143e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143E7 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 12e7115059ab26f12c37aa5c5da952829c07c524b1d44f9c741bb9118c2cc407
font_02_sfnt_off00015c67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1