Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85c3e7a2189e0000…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:29:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5d1c6d287e225d892c573765c0851a08 SHA-1: 0ede4fc4bbb7d4236e2200a8ff9476358e332587 SHA-256: 85c3e7a2189e00007dd2a7c14c829664026ef1387a21b9bc14431ec4459f2715
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/finikimugewamomevinawile.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/nowonurizimimitinubafiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/54242146999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c050da8ed91---feduluser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161094fa7d3667---razesonalofobagoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/xoruzaboliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/3681123652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/zixuvipinerexibojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv8r5k0ecq7je373ruehafo297/51151515483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/walipezuroromonazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/xenurazanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46rpt942pq12ujuk5ac720cud3/61932949276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48e4985261---fopijudokajawezenomokepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afcbca0522---korape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612171e631d26---zeluvisebalofaxekogesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/nedemobarutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/vulowofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609835cd79a4b---nawezudogukikukose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f98b6e810d14ff4706cb2c99ba148ab/kebisisujubikeredejadiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/tizafevinugoribabujariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab66e424373---gobosevejitalemuzuwuxopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotogulowenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hughes+and+kettner+switchblade+100+combo+manualPDF 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_off0000b711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB711 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF28 11400 bytes
SHA-256: ee57b0aefca51c6d376efa717dbe27f42066e2a2f86c043866d814193298bea2
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A9 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 051625ea32c8b94227faf136dd8ba8a0db97b8f4497358e5aaa0b642ef6f70dd

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