Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f85de105fa098783…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 21cb0cc7d2a05f6232e1fb94c6952ad5 SHA-1: 654e4ad0ca7781874a21c62d26d4ba167f68bc08 SHA-256: f85de105fa09878321e3dfd54202e42685559673c8b371f19e8dfcf11deb0160
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to lure users into clicking through to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb77082bea5---babuferabigexodufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210527_202831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcasb451h8jimfog9jt4sk2q3d/60509044313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/faruxipenarukexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862979b72ab0f8622c9ec647168cb18d/mawijenisaviduzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b726b848c389ba5d29bcf99ecbbb1377/fumakugefetuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21a6d19f611bebe6fcf3dce089f9105/bipokepokusopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c0c83d898---5766015843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmrntlddgsp8t6r98hi4q35hb6/gozivozekaxeveweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4f01170ad---7096190294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b633a6c6a8e---57370942683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/kebutegudejumevugiwujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq9rs61budqvl7sflghtltf33n/4836266911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/59868778291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/mitorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d5vf2e3gsc9mvpmhk4mnff97/fililujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35dcce8da6ad3a07dc591d52130866d/24069174905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/55019555585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/99270283204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/65068571620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/72479314539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba13098b838---36882862747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=movies+with+ed+and+lorrainePDF 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_off0000eb83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB83 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 504c38924e7d0c054169b877c94843f1a30924e6a2976c82323a7d207c35ec60
font_01_sfnt_off00010361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10361 19224 bytes
SHA-256: e03db59aeab49d7c49fef501b512c4934d04f81f6969aa601ed7bfb5b5600780
font_02_sfnt_off00013351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13351 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1