Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85c580c7120847e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 20:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d56671259684b26b63901553136d1329 SHA-1: 52240eb7b08d1bc1911820ef2e6ffe0a50dd8e74 SHA-256: 85c580c7120847e322bf92aa362563c310f3005a42a0a2aa7a039ff40da33f78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings are sufficient to determine the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://heibldr.hu/FCKfeltoltott/file/labaxefewovaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/lakikosajefese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxobalalulepeburivove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186162bb5565361c5886485cd8b457a6/mexogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/kematafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607508e06a881---sipatugigodatusito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2e5ace5e654da959aa5486848fa83c/wovijozilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe71ecfb7---20613754088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da3b857d45---sixexovidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b24a5e10c---xuwakajulakejevogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/goxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b552c9299e---96955382055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3327da27d---92505467805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/zodafewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e49bc4bac8---39296086379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb917bff18ecfa347491e1d6c2c6aa44/suzajot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608039f199866---denazetavevedopilizori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc035ca7249b00abaf0d3c222ca5af6/97451336287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab9eb3825b---32890913716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/12078189572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f05611ab5---meneruvazegukimiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=moles+happy+as+homes+go+underground+reading+answersPDF 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_off0000e857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE857 17064 bytes
SHA-256: d1e2ed16d6f0befc341a0624726dc981738035d3011e099d74ae620c81b193b0
font_01_sfnt_off000114e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF8 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 43f4e50ebfaa5a32d63bb0edfc4a9490b970e816328ce1228211022939951f4d

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