Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e85b8b374488c025…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 16:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9c8ab43dd102913b9a30489fb33e5635 SHA-1: 72a7ca849f3644f84880b55259b28dc5880101ed SHA-256: e85b8b374488c0251aaffa9f6b09e538ee40d316492e85c8f410de48d542a7f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/45003363412.pdf
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c675a3476d---52423431349.pdf
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/fojogozekigawojusadukesa.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/91770704851.pdf
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/89923601774.pdf
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/bevewimugud.pdf
    • http://propellerclubsandiego.org/uploads/files/98811639147.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510192853745364.pdf
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c9a767ed0929567e90c05e59d107a1/11345417592.pdf
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/dulunax.pdf
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20003f563e045b4117fc5f478c003519/doguzuzimesebonelojafoz.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7cc23a9867---14837055455.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a575d6d7a14---nupekekuv.pdf
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14124402347.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607735eb84432---nelimo.pdf
    • http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/48189551423.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2a2utk5vrc3vgkhko62nvv985/36209292648.pdf
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210813235620.pdf
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/32479981139.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f6009a5eb8f1025e958e2a74d216fc/7200000759.pdf
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/xodigafufe.pdf
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/juritadazepowovuruk.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5844de69e---32574032606.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=solving+rubik%27s+cube+methods
    • 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_off00010ca7.bin
ce468bc5def3cef39d5784ef93b335b4274f713a8cf8c087d91426c902625244
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA7 16912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001385c.bin
dae7799eedc6e224784ad4e438aaba13a81a4e6bf83f844789537c3e366e3b4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385C 11160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001521c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1521C 16792 bytes