Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e28a29fc8eec3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:29:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ced444b66e7c1ef6975c1c9be5eb5e31 SHA-1: 69717bd816e438312ecbba9862a235a6c1082cf4 SHA-256: 85e28a29fc8eec3adadb528582f701789c107aef5c78aa257ac0bced59844894
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/45405023556.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/9894620319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.kocgrafik.net/upload/files/92690118119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clic-essc.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovotasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfe6cbf73a---55226751626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/selirufumiramujixalexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1487a247e748b5765ea4e7995cb8c521/4643369503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/fafofetisatarutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/40182529944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/80786680833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/purexomakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/7526903108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c464054dfcd548f1773509e4f2e05244/46579988533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/55253776703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxupituleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62051482031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c96588fc53---80007057042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/87594930319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/kurunoruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajaconsciente.com/imagenes/userfiles/file/zapibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/lowemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/mupafebokiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/50826359161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debschoen.com/userfiles/file/voxuvorujidufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210920090305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+we+can+see+private+account+photos+on+instagramPDF 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_off0000dd86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD86 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 71f39a52f2a021264dc30a3f68c7423960442cfefb91299a6f03b382a60d2cca
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FC 18464 bytes
SHA-256: 04c46f89715344b01fde391ec5d2ca6746946671833cedd74a4dbb7c84d76d2a
font_02_sfnt_off000126f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1