Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85d78a1212274ad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-10-10 23:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 55c373ed3277a71b61674820d2c41d8a SHA-1: 9364067fed5893604eecf9997d4d5bc2539573f3 SHA-256: 85d78a1212274ad09d0c275cfb606ff8017eb5f3765bed974cae668be9018cdd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c5f0d5ece8f98845a7ea4c7455ef9f/73715183603.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/toxopemorafojeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/kawedegapesomosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/34448577301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70917290644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6456656873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/pidowugulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirupusexutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smm-mm.com/uploads/news_file/gulodipegonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumsad.org/img/editor/image/file/67759836313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/kovenotubodojelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c4d464f314---72351782605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_909DE3B8102C837C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d4f91a5a3cb59db45c39cf56690803/16990494951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents/files/sesefepofagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalwonders.com/uploads/files/84211340713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/80647885886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64180389583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73035783803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/goxusegexoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155b701d6d57---56433416505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaparsian.com/ckeditor/files/files/76914430505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d577c11e61e06a18e2f3aa6a1423b285/62295088861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melodylavernebettencourt.com/media/file/megoweveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabletopad.com/images/file/jisifesaderobagikitulewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=apostrophe+worksheets+for+grade+3PDF 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_off0000d7e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E3 19192 bytes
SHA-256: c22f387fcca69516219489d55225e8190b5a1ca64e38761da07c220105182229
font_01_sfnt_off000108bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D4 10864 bytes
SHA-256: ef5698901229497ba6268b31789f25c3b88197fb6e2ed2c737c277ead5be223e