Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfa85359ff611caf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:38:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 53452acd20ce481de4cb4371682c4664 SHA-1: 7315c1445a5600fccb46bd6b461e645124ee295c SHA-256: dfa85359ff611caf244019c2674fe991375fea348cc0edcfea311a1a5930a5e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs point to various compromised CMS upload locations and other suspicious domains, reinforcing the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87941713375.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/30577505494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b85c38c4ca1e713855afa9979e59b629/38495290921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b5ec10980---67732923575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/sujejamomadoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dvj531ebce6adqrii5d33ld4f/vaxojuvapuxuvufazudazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22dbe0886b---57820697486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/pafutixazurigebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/80543180192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/28560047415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/polatapunovofaluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e28eee567f---35688771994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608677aee4c89---luduvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/jaxajuzulifubelekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/74356788546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e487d2af4fe---83932013708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/kezudiniduleriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a267637d3aead11b486e18202df91e8/20607059983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a67c6177dce3083ba2d10eb1e43130/punisusugemome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/39417420319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03a480f14f---mipimaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1e093d01d---vubefabijogifetidekixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazetakosifokususe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6cc382dfdc---fiditupopamosukopotiriti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masunurefawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cells+and+batteries+worksheetPDF 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_off0000da41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF258 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 04e88daf6ba3078f78a7cbc8494bea62c5ddb8a4ab1ae5e7b64cd43e98ca686d
font_02_sfnt_off00010adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADC 17692 bytes
SHA-256: cef83804e49ba8f79b285a977ab7aae0b69d2689b46dd35a3b7a4df7be4f0c6b