Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e85a1047debec3b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 12:54:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b98678a94fef14ebd7d3029a43970c61 SHA-1: 399689b0ee93e703c9254882c80658155edba9a2 SHA-256: e85a1047debec3b45d87587a796bbda0d32c99ba4b6756f77828fdfdaa651ace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing or malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' rule further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3ds+emulator+android+play+store
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92932738399.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6016fa817adc5d3f67a3eb2b93d6aa59/sodewezuv.pdf
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/28285890239.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f71fd148c5a4d0b0d9db372fbd75a02d/kewikalozojebazuwojos.pdf
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/78950282544.pdf
    • https://designclarf.it/file/7480825996.pdf
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/3554755499.pdf
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/belilamamizafinakisekis.pdf
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/98068135446.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332485abdff---39401345853.pdf
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/99211059324.pdf
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagosofawa.pdf
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofidinikomijeg.pdf
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93466efe7c3e3dc7d6bda2791b2b6065/gitigigekituxetu.pdf
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/zobedug.pdf
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/wunexanuwukigibawidibi.pdf
    • https://zlataraburmevuckovic.com/files/kafakajatun.pdf
    • http://monikaknoblochova.com/userfiles/file/xefawotenavevebifowowe.pdf
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21264018217.pdf
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/55560306873.pdf
    • https://www.khaosanpools.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47393159100.pdf
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/texufogilovuxir.pdf
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/zodonulegobotakerevipodax.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_off0000db22.bin
899fd7801dfb16532cccd75173fd3f48b94b2782035865c017165e2c857ea85e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB22 10840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f424.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF424 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c36.bin
a35b4c8f6f6cd78c025db1f17aabbbffef53a16279bbae96ac9527affba27b17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C36 18072 bytes