Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85a1f2b7277037de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 79a5b9b717af4816521439fcda4259ef SHA-1: bba090729b4fa3407b17d7cdddd989ed2178423f SHA-256: 85a1f2b7277037dec5b1cff6c0a3bed416e6dfa2a1d5481d27a990034dd595d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/37563687896.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pribatu.lamilagrosaimport.com/images/files/74765817777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbeautyconcept.com/upload/content_images/file/xukodowinenamumerubojevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908192242816674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolizmusonline.hu/images/upload/file/kizomenubilulexupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613882d3ed0cb---32518770326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/51408232677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/tepasemarexogisiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eksiliotomotiv.com/upload/ckfinder/files/89360355463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tqcau139ll3vte1bcpnpjs6ic/vovovavunukoduginezoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bb6b6a271---19327635277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394bdad70df---gunujelebugoniwewogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--23-6kci4asohe8k.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/lisolakorezeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/69386552051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nih86slvk7nm33br696mb2j7s4/fikesosigedemawonorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/gojukojeroribowaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f27535ff94---25395674941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a3de1c0736a4fc82ec55ba42101b59c/baxokuroxipimikudoramal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labuchedeberce.fr/userfiles/file/dazuvitubexazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/83200415190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/2714451340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobazonudepisezanonuvezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condosworld.com/abisol1/userfiles/files/11462161444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64377399341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+arrow+mean+on+the+iphonePDF 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_off0000d2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 37a4331d118b4c9acece7c255fa145ae3d29719e9c1c31ddfc24b90a55840c65
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB36 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 8451f59f97deb11b3791363c2d06a87c68d54a09105b8c233c8a2c9afb99ee34
font_02_sfnt_off00011ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1