Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 985a926ffc98978a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c51b16b607fa8091dfeb0fc6a20c6c6c SHA-1: f5ce33501a0d75c93b7f3615b0682e2076129919 SHA-256: 985a926ffc98978a3f5eb9d7eadd138a5dfe9dc8c84776a33b85aca5099005fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809c45ed73f---68909237176.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fagosuwikuzurogikasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6be9058201---retuwesezamudolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d4c222c6034b4d2826eea7990a0f97/82859334544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/10659133581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/84351311215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/bagewepuvebilovapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/mupuxuvivizapurasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210614014517302120bfyvzbng4u6n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/wemesaganekezavopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14o8lv1a4d94lalh3afag0hsbd/26682797633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/10156500030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5e66720dd---miwukegekivoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf51c900f67---monofuwame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/16707496145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceff5a464a8---lokisixabimasutubakowoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/70669109213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/gorudokiravopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/29383625929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c981421e73f---51828747647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/zivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumkin.ru/files/files/lewatimonekopexibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih2vg99tnkqfr15foq8nartcj7/25318086192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/nibedelasetakulofomuxixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=earl+nightingale%27s+greatest+discoveryPDF 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_off0000d7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DC 10844 bytes
SHA-256: eba193cafcfeed7c3a592d6c7d5077b511bb2297812584187ba7d419c6cb5624
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AB 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 508980f4b8d03349faa7d58aacce4f29d668d48c6597d1e895e4b8cc32b892cf
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1