Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85f852dd7fd19a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-01 15:25:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 75dddd0cf34f40aa62fa5660e71d8b14 SHA-1: 875c61018a924537cd1eb1190b6746d0016ec353 SHA-256: 85f852dd7fd19a746a8a3969e5f1d1842ccc5c6200763928a0109fff9748c743
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic points towards an attempt to lead the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+games+100 PDF link annotation
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/92852387179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/gezuwufapokajujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4d616d611cdb3b313235c0e0cdd85d/furisekasakufodesinosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rakbah.healthybitespk.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39575105685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://possamaiferramenta.it/uploads/file/dejamurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/lekafimemenuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog/file/19276614950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e13a84447b---4894093873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153e62c86f74---41812692109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/51663583825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/47419297887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/dojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/57394375078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lufupixulesibegorogonigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/3347896929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/kejetarodorutukabepulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06d06e0fc47374d6e3dc6762a2093a3/sizatosize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25447845590.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarodofizizevamudanota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teater77.nl/userfiles/file/1460194990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecuriosityshot.com/33850813413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e2d8a1e2d---31370780705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/89404211258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/95489330515.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_off0000b238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB238 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 47d3d121da017e4cefcfac654c9b4a84529635fa2d5c4697817614342f0623dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000c935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC935 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE147 14868 bytes
SHA-256: 12bf99e35fbbee835b4e9b34bbcca68373b81f53b73983d321003b63de191d84