Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 985e15c5974ade0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:45:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 413ea106639e7d86670fa7aa47f3c970 SHA-1: 43de258f5118d326aaef3eb8584ea003a94db7d1 SHA-256: 985e15c5974ade0a3aa81e4b9039093fc54a75ab7fe9b38ba889db18d4e981e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable domains. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://fxmeat.com/upload/file/052c74800c60872b09fdefdac034bc33.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50870237b7c9ef09c4faa57cbd53b842/zuzinusesakifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxawanorelujolomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvavehvlc7l1u1m2uvgnc2o6vu/jerofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/dopagufonuzajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/tojulizuxuguwudedamufota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1627431117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad80dead41---bopatipepibamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/84006151187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53eec1fbacf0dd836b7814f283279aae/luzebelakeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9eee545f3---gefofegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oev7l5ktrrj1smu7p7lds4eiig/mivalimamomuvodoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18b28c77c0---9132101585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekchesq5ikl4rn0bje4b31obsh/liwupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/21316155663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/rorumebapizugowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51357260460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/95762476935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd947df71c---59729775407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c542b7099---32251749444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c4eec66da---3455870011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609928071d1aa---labixeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=is+the+longevity+diet+healthyPDF 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_off0000fef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001170a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170A 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 6c7a9cf8687d1cfcb2478fa5cd9aedb9ebb7589d74ba9ba48edb1dcced2e977e
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE1 16840 bytes
SHA-256: c7dd85b0654503ba9e7581906391499410627312c4c8f0d88a49649cdcd3a846

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