Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85d5d5e50b9592fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-08-24 15:05:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c13e60d40f60e436a3e6a93189278822 SHA-1: 63c258db3be603c50b2d61897999104900d3c813 SHA-256: 85d5d5e50b9592fb65d92ae381083ff8b3cda1a96951173a983781ad56dce319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+of+ocean%27s+movies PDF link annotation
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/mewowozomogegewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/zanuvijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1d9ea2d5e---bopezototivipureloroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a99c34a15b---veniramipitaxetekikagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07872d6f6a---65437758925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742b5d4f32c---puzomeroliganebekobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5j07unnoj4unqvnbas1phjgbf/61651669657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c46351bb5---musuziviworabesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/sazawira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okudshava.ru/userfiles/file/koweluxuxorujejutuwepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f60642dec6---95480158288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69937490513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/23032663425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/36258133518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d09430fc67---43565605201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083de3371486---kopufesuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artinterior.bg/userfiles/file/58115482848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yapluka-services.fr/userfiles/file/17079981885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bb7fe7c89---jafoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161000d51d5ed2---texugumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df3e724dcf---21275084522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885bea34667---32544922571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/74859698970.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_off00010af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001230a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230A 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 08d87fb6ad3f94f504d1bbb4e42a573a66877967765be9009baad409d202f823
font_02_sfnt_off00013a88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A88 16560 bytes
SHA-256: b10f613d6b146dd1515c097a8f565ac723a39548346640cf52d0121850e1826a