Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 885a61fe8038ff78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f5fd68c98166b700e09b2180e769c91d SHA-1: 74304144591ff4bb10ad4ae7f08c368cd3364eb4 SHA-256: 885a61fe8038ff78b7e5df173b3e8079a1c5468448b68c7e0f8af31473962a13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0', and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious with high confidence. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aa9c0e9a2---86020467488.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/sowupudevaboron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/fimonawazamuvavirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608347b86648f---75941352745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fnjckjqgd3be2p8i0mnvicp6i/daxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeclinic.kr/userData/board/file/ratibaveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/23624122906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f25aed02cbe29fab562f3d8805840274/15864066810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfengly.dk/skoleportalen/userfiles/file/tuwizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/91272355092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xumemogebomuseweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef498131b45d45f2aef57341619e589e/wugovimibiger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/xewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/1210406007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af8cd8974d---kebamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/bolewubinojuzexalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520830b4087bc0647b8d19e4eec80d6d/gafadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/tifereziwerojulixoline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/razuroteruroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhroseclassof77.com/clients/45984/File/40214167695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95a5e2caaf---bijifurinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/66126676372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/miwirezulimurigubirexipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rc6j02fe10f1pisqicu7487f64/jugosagitetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+competitive+exclusionPDF 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_off0000b9a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A7 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 6f792bb33c2fb598bb98ee6175b21f7e2642fc356ea026ff24760d3c4d443e78
font_01_sfnt_off0000d20e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20E 18600 bytes
SHA-256: abfb87192cb8124f1534ad97e32af1bae10d7b162ac25ebc4d6badd4a876fabc
font_02_sfnt_off000101c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1