Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85b05d027a19bab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:55:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b7bc203b5bd60b560e28087b64e518d7 SHA-1: 55bf8591014abd61a0b825d33758603e0d64367c SHA-256: 85b05d027a19bab9bf56b0406e9a3f1eb3892d8e49dab480b27fa887afd0fea2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=approximate+analysis+of+frames PDF link annotation
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f024ecf25be---tifodujalumenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/27583786951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/11715567984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg97a8mh7hsf6a07qkrgnqbbm5/xofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/pafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac1ee98be9---59356211412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97206fe244c693ec719c6dcc84d0af16/tufevudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314c441402442aaa1ddd16b8b071386d/putumafosiwase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e52fe7eb45a749c91bac1c4e0eee668/pevegorufufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfe035cce986e298417907ffe6abfdba/rugodukosadunopunezabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furemezuzebokowilenobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e3605e443---73459294208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/34725802801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/pejanejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/51457793952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/7127585435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithandfriendsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d0/d05d9bb0b75700e7199fc64e52c62161/File/52802290628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845989ace2---46986163299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/71873545188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/95960414604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/buberativinuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323n7ru6dqn90pq0plo1be0cdt/40215571574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5a883430860f3a47c096803c3083fe6/2991890490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59003112fba790ad3872fc2297106e4f/84606066117.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_off0000e4c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C2 18708 bytes
SHA-256: 222b04e4f43060d73ae9d6fe2ea1e701f6b7acd2f33b792620fb5d00ae958f15
font_01_sfnt_off0001154c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154C 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 376cd00a185542c428e24b547485cc3dd310bb6ce955a124cbd30f57fdb94939
font_02_sfnt_off00012df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1