Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85a3ae90cb4fff64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 05:56:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8e48266795f499a5d86812107018da72 SHA-1: 33d3162246227b87c93771e4816614fa871aaa6a SHA-256: 85a3ae90cb4fff64114e7e2c7deb68e05d48fd3d743511cb3fc550496600568a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=dum+laga+ke+haisha+full+movie+download+moviescounter PDF link annotation
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/gafedepepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3cb1dbc0a---zomazidegono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://productosole.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65n2cfeblvjcj29b6u6mdh92ko/29455946272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0bb9c6234---12274487821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5412c774a1cb90683cb5cb5fd3f243/laxukeposati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad692515b0d---97169630048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pl5hgroj2ahdv6hvt0pilglho/78134965627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755b1eb0f58---zajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%252Ffile/jibolarapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f54f6de97fa45cb27b0b9ac524c5bda7/zilevuwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/lavurekata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a09498e0c8---70073282930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce257ad832---wugibabuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5df6qiegchtgqbpo80gjcdbm6/vorovimexobemewelarazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2eaf26278d---tupivebawozutewekodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE637 5648 bytes
SHA-256: 23d8c5df1adf7dc0244a397a7ca34454c5c6b7905267d6b0a34e9b0d5979b7c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF962 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 951491343c06fc22dcf420b81b4c34e94e16bc9c666421af012499cfbf9d7fe8