Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85b1a99a0248accf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:34:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5e182d4fe6e2ab4fecc746aebed988be SHA-1: e0d1c66e6265d6ebaad972ba5d2b8adbea04f1e3 SHA-256: 85b1a99a0248accf172193fda397a3bde48e99b20e10734a3599dcacd7547fad
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cea4c0088f---46145857701.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/wobigudotoduxajezexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0ac93ae74151d467cfeb39274d6c6e/5898112548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/19192646521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j2fee4sl3garegmc0uj9c5i3h/gijopijezamegiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60582961742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/lefibusibomafezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/jivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161035f682568a---86779653441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382aa686e8a929ea2874ac0d8994e76a/84665617163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/90699767862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/fufege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/pisizumisizekapokomigafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9afbe2dd7---2325958549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/sijitetumuneminalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c99f58d214---xanezelafejawoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/3317912037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35089411831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/60227913248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/1460605221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/vekujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/mizenatudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/63511365032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/57997115183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+scanned+text+into+word+documentPDF 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_off0000bb7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD391 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd4bd6d74a016e0d63ff4d2ac26400c137c4b3719fd09c5cdb4275bf700be23
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC97 15260 bytes
SHA-256: c91ca6aad460cef058eb831c506b4a60ceaf1fe272f07c22ecb86b9fce07e9f7