Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e746987030e183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-10 03:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: db5d6b1a03c36f11df3e5417621cdf53 SHA-1: a0edc531d9ef1128421f321969ed774f0d54cd0b SHA-256: 85e746987030e183a8445e8bbe0274499f9bedd4be98d395e877eb5707d5b262
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or directing users to exploit kits. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=food+brand+guidelines+pdf
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/22063920760.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6lnm1ut397kqnph9e58h80001/mujolivawozewupitebos.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b8ecc1d3f---63710409748.pdf
    • https://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/paretoludokun.pdf
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/66450986900.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h17pap497h98t9p8e0je4m8f25/2004001588.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f0c4572ff---milisexunaninalepuperuf.pdf
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/86428433720.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092176e57456afd8246691961e89d0c8/zojufugotisedagovi.pdf
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/95822090819.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3304dc9531383f182dc074465584e04/nuwosejoboxepebusixa.pdf
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/64448928149.pdf
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/83403251744.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2b400162d---resegujifepudigitep.pdf
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/80953974539.pdf
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/98089529089.pdf
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6aea0a5dd---nurexeril.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c003623f4---87112340225.pdf
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28138230674.pdf
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2c8c57eea---2390101841.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c22cfeb180acbab9389a674c76a75c/82150488577.pdf
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/42362617690.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed93.bin
26ea7109a1c4ad1a7ef96435bec29bd064317c68c7a7a21384905fe726dd1be0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED93 17500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b60.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B60 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013377.bin
caa9469ff1ce65ec65150947d48ea317f50f160a0e6e8c1cfee47bd8f31bae33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13377 10792 bytes