Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 885a5222f0925de0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f06deae7d13f11a91c767b84baefb999 SHA-1: baf9f9080cdafa333c534af7df4ed3968ed24d0f SHA-256: 885a5222f0925de099d7edb3dc4adf35caf205e373ada469b08343d9e4a1322b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports the attack pattern of directing users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncd6gvi7c3cldt4v8nnq7b1q0f/33260339974.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/tigadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db61e2cc845---80349553942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/tivifuramugefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210621231702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalihemp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazefeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d2c43ca74---waritimufabevasowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/10015174793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/gesigegipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91bc15ec494bca881daa4462507e970/41140500629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/53775011494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0q9tko6bek2qknfo5sb3a5vs1/36753335796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styrexon.cz/userfiles/file/85173919386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godswaynehemiahmbc.com/clients/878002/File/98491119538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/84552328749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/58188307274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mrbuoiuv2remf88fqdsfr2fu0/75871514776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/92879607651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.com/userfiles/file/37214363078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/86678084679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83436b1177---gefirawepavefadawaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e489f3b1a23a825e26e23aba3a98dd/77899017417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/6252158709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=calendrier+coupe+du+monde+2018+pdf+par+datePDF 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_off0000d8f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF103 19496 bytes
SHA-256: 2348056c12e5208601cdc8b154aee20b67ee1d6be946e6e836833cce1f3c4c8a
font_02_sfnt_off00012203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12203 11244 bytes
SHA-256: be3bc567dce2868c1bb3302a4e92b381ba0530891d5f191f2628531b6c8b41a6