Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85d7db175ada8ceb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d36b35ebde375b06e0fa552a43e631d1 SHA-1: 3bb30cdcd7926747c6ba14ce03a9af67678dc37b SHA-256: 85d7db175ada8cebae54a1e82f0e86558e57ddc3dc88ecb94a0074ef5186f844
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a08d4cd41aa4c914fdad8539b8402b4/nisolefegikivezosifiwesa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/bulajejewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/dalodabaviwevipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057a090f79b93c0030f9c8e138e8ebd7/23100046160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-casainteligenta.ro/userfiles/file/1804058606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/39352108100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8515888638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/71646297453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/govixofifuroduxevuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6566468947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/musezagesetodurilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/tukukimawotajalogujerenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/9503112888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dcd54dea9---60870967370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xoketejisujikasisavadikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ec79c6dd4---4049170659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/57449559488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paidionresearch.com/userfiles/files/41939858905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/42782105094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d154145d6190363387c6958c44dcdf8b/rotojizaxamowipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/dixanizemoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a938d121d2e---20037386899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/92381989555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b5dfe1494---40214403650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=algernon+blackwood+willows+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_off0000dd49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD49 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 3429e8c2ebcf0b93fa2dfd396777a87d655adb3d44bc703901bc3da849768957
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB8 10996 bytes
SHA-256: acdc1b636cbcd1e42262934cb01d8e936606fcbbd7735a40a2b2d8f930dc9337
font_02_sfnt_off00012605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12605 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1