Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b85fa95d9e629cc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 106b2072f65fd8bf8ff33406d18a6d5e SHA-1: 28e8829ba9e2ddb4707e383c8eed8e93615ed784 SHA-256: b85fa95d9e629cc1624345ff6890c72b014299946b1ab74663de694092c7a288
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f37150ad8---vitogibefa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd6cb7d0b7---zazowuwusikaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608256b1e2f83---nowokovodadezovujixejovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/sojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/wekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1q2qrf6mmdog0jo7euttu0n7tf/98885244686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74d31ecd10---sakagetanowitilotuvokaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/45441160106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608610d18d5e7---55418248616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3l28ocp2kd4p05rcdqhrg2o29/lefusaruwemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/jujurirorifezatusibeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088988283615---19002257123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/79689460773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/55844506023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/58479456748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/zerawerodipakexavatedene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/58633728302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25716065736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1iaa94hm8sd597ok217nuv5kju/24635564054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f62b4a4f0---rexewedunobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/50668206308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b82537bb9---4129713055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///nafetusagogerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=rtos+architecture+pdfPDF 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_off00011420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11420 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C37 10712 bytes
SHA-256: ed5f9fa40bc6de24c82fee75b85f61e1e1c919127537d5dc3871d473f416953d
font_02_sfnt_off000144fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144FC 18912 bytes
SHA-256: 60f3ba4f00feaa383c6cefa464e907aeb939b281bf86e594c5374ccdc5c0cbb1