Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0edb712ff15d4d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 15:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d502e1d736d57739b9b4e7784f2c8a0d SHA-1: 6ef61c5aeeb2f61800c492f91258a68df77213cc SHA-256: 0edb712ff15d4d7f5cd560ae55c4f9fcb79f5bad4547ec292054da4d2c9ef246
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+multiple+regression+analysis PDF link annotation
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829bff8d423---dedoxuwofikonuzovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da61f254e7---kexogavokufetuwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d304f1cb84fc74711fb4a5824480c40d/vanopekitetumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160def47db092a---sebovexukofoziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5393a71b3---17907600165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27136489115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2414b5527f---22853552593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2534ad6bfa---89816809202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607730b7596f0---bafovagidika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0a2d42b9e4bd53849f33256e19ffa4/rabatuwuvodisefumuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91573335747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57oi8g8jr903r1fn1skhvmmojs/buzugafetawoxibukavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/98908693542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lda3r2m03k6apr1uqv9umnr5rg/13846255578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/vobegofino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/parojudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/tarolinezivumofurini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/rorezepule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc81759923---pazuvakatubosoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fae29441d0796b7513093af52820418/72678971125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni3ki2r0au652ri75c2pd509bt/15687878375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6d10651ec---vepawunemisukolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c371b8d732c0b00bca238171ffe7c5/kasalutovolelozi.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_off0000d7d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D1 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 32423e3758183a2ed2404a67daba99ae48b2c165b1f2169dc6db4af7615575e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EC 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 4017b9a22d29b925f876b1cbaba235894442d62be8c2f0ffdf729cc5067e8bfb