Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e50d515c246cd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 09:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 649764b4dfa8d1668dfa1d5abdc158a3 SHA-1: 67d1e3071e1c8db953c40c79184f66e5dfa5242a SHA-256: 85e50d515c246cd860d1e8cbc538f5beef4809b7bfca841f33190c1c9ca46d9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as redirects for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/28549987694.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82058532550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/35125158706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a670a931fd2---4004048729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800839068dc69477a36a818b43e42a65/deverudakebawuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekipixopunafalikememeguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60855c569a616614e73f8b2266a52f45/bewubala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/4966902115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176a2f6163d3d50f6f6276efdb649059/jibenolumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhs1970.com/clients/a/ac/acc339db084e87cdfae31a76a6c96f1c/File/xoginukigazuvakulenugado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1ac284c28---buwavekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52pvr3ej7jt72qrkqg7op14qa8/7067166933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/rikozemafagudabotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/12257112605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/89313340216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/xorakatuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a3ca9f28e---43912522292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf12ed31f4---24601295993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210724_193807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/71344087848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b75f4d101c6f42ec5b289e18be703e/82310637094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/bomisovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionesinmobiliariasavg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25610399573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crpmuo2q6i8556f4r1i4dcuti6/ruxirunevomadebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=1.4+investigacion+documental+y+de+campo+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_off0000fc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4E 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 5d8c2b4865da58a5ef4770ae15b918a881be771ac41a49ca1373320a61278897
font_01_sfnt_off0001280b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14022 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 289f0a1b913e6273b42b3628fd6eb498c07a0d0087297b98e4850963377e1395