Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e245510680bb64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 16:49:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d2c2a0edcda5dd88fe984afa04c6b1c9 SHA-1: e911b75fdd53180879881dab1f768196470ec7a8 SHA-256: 85e245510680bb6441673f1c52de6c67ffa066a98305d8663cb6cccd164c43d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a social engineering or redirection-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+formula+of+physical+chemistry+class+12 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4cfe068b4---83343784142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744fea07dbf---18720674761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bda742e48cd0f0413b066cdc9430c0d/67592800281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e9292dd95cbe1cff52ce62d1272951d/pedupuboborofopoxewowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/rovevuxitowugimeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d227d5e8243d789fce1584e6bbecd7b2/mugigajawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2bbab8d9ffba610c48c04f887da193/nusupenuwubogisexurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/29182029923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/dutibusulidawosisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrhoiej0g581lhk2t68lfn0a7l/dufuxigosunofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/durowenume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2o9304284lb0fs348krna80vm/fesubelejufalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e4eddf91f546ad62e7e8d988766c67/rojekibotaluxemafosulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d444975b7---81309503248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/tetasepofadotolemutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bs7cc8ntumktv9cjobf7ae673o/85727329101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62aa41523c9c4604638293ad0feaf6da/zituxenozexenifanuboxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d862b9b5c2e3257f181b3a1e3fb19af5/48507311934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81fdd64d95b107aba11ae46d89df8710/zutefiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27df6ee45f---laxufaruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/jiditabisugafulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/81543506843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jegaka1d6ea23vb4cu3i1mfitk/tabipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/086ec505130f234085d534917f2e0aea/92091186320.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_off0000e717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE717 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4dd7b35cda791daf46ebee45c18c12b202ff8f6e9ae65d2604b0f19a5abce6
font_01_sfnt_off000100dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118EE 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 387f93a4b0ede464b47464bb83f7dbce7737143fee0b4e9efebc00792ba05f2f