Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e720857aa8c2aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:19:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 571afae415d4625a15740f743b134a82 SHA-1: ed591d81330d5e6340a7d830698a87cd1cfe3d47 SHA-256: 85e720857aa8c2aa1413048750699431f174e75b4a79a69c9f5fc342748ec930
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to deceive users into downloading a malicious file, likely a PDF, by impersonating a financial document. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/bixosejaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/69365955424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/868eacb2ef9df9d779ba653a6893cc38/58864786728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909462c688---20885255160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/45975013947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mar3ol.com/Files/files/jetena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/63010507317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologadamczak.pl/userfiles/file/xovasebuxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/23898822229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/69999517906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonuldoviz.com/upload/ckfinder/files/76200909597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/kajimekoloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/nogomipifiwerisave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4227aa9e0---5728285711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/55352129645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/73663572644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfe30891b7---76047043399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf3c30701a---71969719890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210820203526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eda5f5ed3c---96741869698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///pajemegadaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67472532f2---41192247800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/zufizakomatosaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banilitetatotozezosikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed94a60d9d6---96740615050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=payroll+accounting+2018+book+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_off0000dabc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D3 11444 bytes
SHA-256: 65a77ec0bcfb8fe45f15c572b29e135cc7cdbd13338a6ae22886a981a7695eb8
font_02_sfnt_off00010db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB2 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 6657a9be531836ba08ffc9c58ada0099f51210f5e94e63e73afd847984eafa36