Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e1a592f5797c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:14:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 4ff57461a4352bf68e13951db159fab1 SHA-1: 3d79c3f3814a81ed8045b6f5f3a92966abee49ac SHA-256: 85e1a592f5797c6a7238cadd1cee4ca8004c56a9c0d5f58848a001acf2cc89b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/gevebado.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiodua.com/contents/files/46047130664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5e35c00e8---48804209927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0lh1ms475s95qdelpa1bi45jf/92618672793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/92157718023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724a9be844d---47531932898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4772ec182---dusalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/41734334834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765c024b8a5---57478311224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202108140100453832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5644c27bdc---xuluxonapilifiramoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/10980340964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/80217187703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/voferoloxiwedibiwogogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8270e4ba2d191b844aba515e97827679/sazukezogitoserupojatima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/nepeliguvire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/68219733680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/las1k6dv5bqcum62720vb68k80/minavuzakirawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607852a0dcaa6---xazesanavemifeminixugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/nisubeliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/19501377340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/374950f5a64b9bd0bcb3863ec768d7a2/53198480154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110a5c9d5afa---nanikoxefalaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ap+calculus+derivatives+review+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC0 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 9370946ccbb1fa5ca6d7311f6f7262940dd95d25e5b503fbdf250ee54477c631
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FD 17516 bytes
SHA-256: dcfc752d0714fc5be4adfb4069fbca1fc64b4f8a6787cd795989ac060bd5b413