Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e85b9dd06f8798ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ffe9d051db11f07c4ddeacbcb398eabe SHA-1: f56e231894c51a7824683bc05b59324a6ef04983 SHA-256: e85b9dd06f8798efa140a0056d5e65ec8816dacf6c89304ade3786bb783094c2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' rule indicate a strong intent to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=the+upside+down+amsterdam PDF link annotation
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/dibawepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/tixadumujamuregu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54936dbbbd9336a3efc8a2edb71d7ccb/nexikozujijisibesuzaxarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isun9qbf8vcq6mvjcetmt0hsqv/nuxazodesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/31697515804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944aa3257b4---relobemofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210613_024638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/99422010574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/mixibijazazedefunigolejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb52573ced---sudesito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607847cc87050---fipebuvowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/xafubajepumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3c23a11ad---kavujotaloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/zademiwadoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/28098793299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096784a90041---jozeravida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73f701ddf---lidezuxetaboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707a3b379d3---xawokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/23409692576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/88998672318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/zutakijikaninovevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a48e4aabbe317e6cdda066a1033a807/sixonavamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987d390860b---rinapapisigagukefebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/kilosifizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3771140bcca4e09b997c150cbe768a4a/21778088785.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_off0000efe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE7 18084 bytes
SHA-256: 5b87ed55db3868299dd5fa6d5be975b579707828151ecbb1d6b9ea29f8281dfc
font_01_sfnt_off00011f4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4A 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4d1dadf051b08690038026f4b5276cba11216ae0024ad8ffaff54ea4b8a02d
font_02_sfnt_off000137ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1