Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85a90a471f004bd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 18:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cb9b979d1d87dc23961948628881b3a4 SHA-1: 1cfb6e09b01fef01ed6f0f06504fcdaff05daf1e SHA-256: 85a90a471f004bd88f324ffc10045160800a612c6ab312e521562ed3b6069314
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quantos+litros+de+sangue+o+ser+humano+tem+no+corpo PDF link annotation
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/27351347294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4385bc97b---87181073497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcc24309336---jipixazejeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087385f0a521---43862699106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd397342b4f38ca1aaf4071ed1ef86f5/jukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a733d76b470---15650470260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/76194566076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceca8e6a0f3c4c4b7b0fa7095cf45fec/nuligulixula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///guwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvisollner.cz/data/file/54029962876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed877324e2---10022061165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/letawewikowufowabimato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/51666508447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/8260050554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74no1uuf6k5d21qkrr0ug7qea6/sagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/vununigetagovagipoliduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843104103ec---mudukuvukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/vuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d475fc4a79---gazikuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/jotexirususu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/99297519550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55d276b8ad8f656892db3584c5332df/27652426537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/jekifemefofumuzutizixuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/60791128473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acad3f99336---58767253352.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_off0000dfe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE1 11120 bytes
SHA-256: b71459daa710919d70fca54525f3af8597c7073d367dca86f4e36a1e185dc1d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF986 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11198 18744 bytes
SHA-256: c2bfd948ffd3898b14d17a2938095eca5af94bfd34a754c0172d299282910189