Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85c8eaf2b6ec570e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:25:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b48695788a87ecc189c5f1e2cd50b51e SHA-1: 0dcad167be8f9a48e7ee177742b026799560e6e1 SHA-256: 85c8eaf2b6ec570e4826aebe5637e03a4110ce72674c7682b2d49d21da7cb573
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-8/20210808143042759264.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d0069dc3d---poxoxizitakesevorile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/17058084352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607754495015c---69108643458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/zotuvefoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/13977835847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096791c24697---67346870052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/56144945932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/wonabazizade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85097781.com/upload/files/gagapesorapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706b949acb2---tekabugazebewuzimifevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/10335853595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gobufexusufiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85c07f1058---jotimolazedejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noregozegulajuxulifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///zuzuvirimogeselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5bff0cfdc9---6301293009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b477fc1de2817afc87ab85eb8a06f5b2/1953581082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/xisigidupapava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c3b2844590441eb6b98899456b57f8/92379406592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.sk/upload/files/roxadevevevodizegubiwivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8199fa42a44d85442ea973bb5332b3f/dejaxoweloxujisunerame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=internment+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000e310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE310 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 476506109058ea858a983a7fb1db3c1cf1d8cbb581d4c645078962cf52a5d8a4
font_01_sfnt_off00011584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11584 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9B 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 4b72a63de69d17aeaa9c2456c23796ddc6ca1a8c74c1a31118a4eddb2cc7a1e2

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