Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d85aa02e3110670a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2ee071712e53b29271dd9dc2c5a9c503 SHA-1: 1d3e2e6c4d2df37fd31265ca0bbf3d4b5978b7bb SHA-256: d85aa02e3110670a91822239f818931639ff650b6e3f69d2f62374a9cd04794f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and points to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cutting+and+tailoring+course+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4c9a269785---nekimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/17749006358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/67128583594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c4a3897d3b8dfa7380da30e4b724a0/36638471395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/2630_20210722223117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315b9u3t88l51pnotqnpiianv7/fidikanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/87385483407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/27513299620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e8ed50150---73026862836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/51267039152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811c60775e8---gokixesuzifexotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe80a2f4270bcf855e6540e97bfbf6e1/tatiwurokexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b18940f91---74883127360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53fbfe96591a6641929ed8b4130bf2c/19558548829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869ab8f0216---pugewuwefamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arzhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pewinakidolekiwilone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f945c4adf---83224664517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/dodaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5sdlo8hnbujmffr5tsduoq55t/17037355852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/96080289476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210806_154228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/13170153322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.minaakshimajumdar.com/fckimages/file/15962739246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/061502517573.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_off0000db26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB26 17496 bytes
SHA-256: d78c25e899112c7d6cd99df1aeca1d8b79ce67c67e8020b4e5862072f93da965
font_01_sfnt_off0001086d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086D 10928 bytes
SHA-256: efc52ea1cc22b8718644cb4b44d76b2b1ddf6adede33ecef6fca76b9d05ddcbf
font_02_sfnt_off000121af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1