Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85d4438b90af56f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 22:42:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9873896bb0b607248dc14db39b8d1314 SHA-1: 3446f786b80ad39d4daf3fe09bb8acf99d3ed02d SHA-256: 85d4438b90af56f14cc7d102a33a7e6dc9ce1edee9040a4d8028857c37de41e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users via these links, likely for credential theft or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scope+of+online+shopping+project+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774a06c85cc335fc740f3b5029acd9d0/vefipureruwelitozukonikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/46853800229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80de834152ef34f2e144bd09baa67b5a/41738614220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/70073869136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vesormfhln40ckkc60q4buurcr/zatodulewitaziwawisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/vekeloviradozonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/12436541929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/kumasujerujora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/jurepazorolasodanuxorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgk3shdn0fnthokuklff88ae3m/90135865166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40806530157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/lafadevumovakigitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/jipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716ba499192---74038456925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/tareraxetodobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608338ef6a5a1---vuxuvojojefoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/foxazesosarewesaralene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/kefuwepopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/5140711712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/45530721950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/45722365558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/munepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ea88676c295a0cf0378414fea1880c/76300775085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/17513246204.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_off0000fa47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA47 10944 bytes
SHA-256: d8431e2767469986bfc22fec1cee5246770325a054470d79ee3b10264cba33ef
font_01_sfnt_off00011349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11349 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5B 17088 bytes
SHA-256: f5945af4b08d4f0116f5d5d053803da2d935076d1576a9af14715bf23ba993c2