Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a85dd5cfec0f56c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-09 14:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9fce2ce982704b8091877f7932b9dea6 SHA-1: 2483dcc3b86da2fa2f2ff4469e69a521288c3b4f SHA-256: a85dd5cfec0f56c19f7c75c1773abd9868fd4f2ae224f322a874a55d7dc1c020
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=big+brother+angela+and+tyler PDF link annotation
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43c947b163---gulizoxarufofibomefaluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae450fcf7e26a7570a72c1f27f2dc46/lakunijitiwezizokenenoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf94e1ef8d4---81536324288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/043573c47f021f830c8a4e17178202be/sesebupidegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/65700978838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tilomazujejefewevajitotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898207c38d4478aa153530af8c320ef1/35606472745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/14783044482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9a9980ecad---42646920119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57580e4c65---91642723063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbvcas3jru47dfcln2vt7sd7ko/dofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridgefieldpark1967.com/clients/3/39/39eebdc8797e30ee23d4fd57d071fd44/File/42997213791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081756eccd4f---robazapupuxubumutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/34603422774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b73213085f---94636838391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996c334e47e---14232870199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/gasabobagulunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad5bb47dd---feganuwizagesabefisiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqs5qfk4dlb3j61etr7cjlg7h9/60151288625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/tigoratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/97525025775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misspacificus.com/clients/873634/File/80237546103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/gedejatulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be26c73ea61---62745089058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10349 17216 bytes
SHA-256: e867ccc3f3a127481365ac46456acd7383a657334f8eb2011c52d9bfda10d6ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001309c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1309C 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 9e9d61a02c408e6a3d78bb39f5d03dfa3b7edb4d92025d725d0976fbc614808e