Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d85d5d2a1aa347a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 03:10:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a6c26c8bcb32500ec54c32ebbf4d6a1c SHA-1: 19879348b28ec6a1534df021c19cad6ad93cb83e SHA-256: 8d85d5d2a1aa347a9189ea806af58b233bbd53a2c3d70d032e2bc00d26b30961
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high-confidence ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f32b1199d8---laxuduzoxopatibejewi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/72988069010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/xirogedowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m3csrl.com/file/niresixole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/ziwugepuravob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e480b292f7---65767258024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/tuwizeworikirevunivutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/mujarubadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e007d23773---fufipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/21370829854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/nuruzukerakuxesunebusilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/244680607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/60551734544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/43990328265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/xerobixonixapofozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/vevetoxozuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7740a33b8---gugazewugasejufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/vafolupejefoxarekuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546bc40bcd2e6bea10816c816df5cc80/99153856131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b2812975d---xepivarirodezamibufowibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/31491619354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/90303300155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098852553343---24341786796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/vonomisamekapigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cinquenta+tons+de+liberdade+google+drivePDF 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_off0000ca6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e27f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27F 19600 bytes
SHA-256: 649cd59d1ef5a386acf333ed46b53cb48dff0ec2428b197ac341869b914ee2f0
font_02_sfnt_off00011243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11243 10908 bytes
SHA-256: ddcac1983daa679eca41ed802f77ae69a69e0a1736ba934b92f63567635d5af3