Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85cac8d4094888b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-10-01 15:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 799247e03635827db3f812e2d52aa7c9 SHA-1: d11d5f9fab516dd43db7c2b4e520ccc3154ce1c4 SHA-256: 85cac8d4094888b07a2cb4e41d1541853d58935bebd219df1d5058538c90430e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+download+apk+android+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/35148343297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiahealthcaredentalcentre.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80329670241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62334685751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/202192242839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/60106132879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domosystem.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapeneguguxubufubabuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f8067a525---xitexorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/73841937841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/gamewonuxibawisezutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceelectric.ca/userfiles/file/22922285847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/82586971841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topbuild.net/content/xuploadimages/file/memozamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikmurah.com/file/lovonaladaridiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazegipilepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151ebc8e4531---mepebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kccegis.com/upfiles/content/file/20210903235937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d01778243bcf132b667490fa9ac0171b/56677354191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7m-shop.com/userfiles/file/tepira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c6686d87e---74852119503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/17519084387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capableapp.com/uploads/files/rogiwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301eaab2f65---60144901347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qatarsecurityservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/36854199078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/68090447059.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_off0000b48f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB48F 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 517518126c3ec185a30253a011bffff09804b6dc2f1635aa767c5c99b5a87ea0
font_01_sfnt_off0000cda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA9 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 27ad1058526033ecdfb2baf897bef6e3c1597153573b6f967970a3d0b10cabde
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1