Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c85e56000483d5ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-25 22:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e019be590b8d268062ff28213d48e49e SHA-1: 6798bbac0bd8de5e2f40e2c6e44cfcf28b1f28fd SHA-256: c85e56000483d5ffd10ef75b56bb9539355e320c3a730dcd3d1a5c5f5b94d63a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or link-farming campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=positive+effects+of+cutting+down+trees
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/46613218095.pdf
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/36579816653.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eftu14acoqotvp7badtquv5r10/17051454187.pdf
    • http://logansport1971.com/clients/4/42/424235dfd0fdcd2d3cc2afd1e16bb83e/File/detekawateboxi.pdf
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/56701145054.pdf
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/34343464968.pdf
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/427843352.pdf
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30583819365.pdf
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29056c9eeff32e8e6267153919d65403/29474694207.pdf
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f7c0d2e37---23025832954.pdf
    • https://mrdak.cc/uploadfile/files/68522038958.pdf
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c70e8245326b7e75a2fe10692d62f1/18256064165.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h5mff0mssm3k6nc88jv989ps2/25075575261.pdf
    • https://destockbaby.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pinixetiv.pdf
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/surinafuvoru.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/58316196548.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0eb0d4439---57724761532.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a8b36901e---talidat.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/778bfd7bb6c7e7805377e696eb8d176b/60087127760.pdf
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/61669222679.pdf
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/vasuji.pdf
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc9557835d9---64662700428.pdf
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1906d96684---ludesatadurudatigojefed.pdf
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p2qn77s33g0qv5iee3e8ncu2u/fiwomamosejakidunutitoj.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e79d.bin
80388812e7e28babd8c8d9d6d6a39eb71713dd41399baa21e0580442a16b9eb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79D 16788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011360.bin
69132234d10a0d76a7e16731302044a6add90af5ac563dd6cb10fa71b9d3fadd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11360 10696 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF8 16792 bytes