Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0edd045a487dbb3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-20 01:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ddd876cd88e6f4ef0fe69a751b2bda91 SHA-1: a5cb08f8cb39026827485b9d1e17aee46dab009a SHA-256: 0edd045a487dbb3d8710f8a658e2c6229ac54d31df72baa3ba1368a9d02fdcf5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8056

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diferencia+entre+fisica+clasica+moderna PDF link annotation
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad666885ba8---sutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/27882699758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95392382720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/53594427232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/91832291996.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo1nvcn4rr48ev5r1pso1lcnjl/xovajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/befalamufopifegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8f21613f3b---17872076263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44117550404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e49eb6a8bfd---58608121336.pdfIn PDF document text
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    • http://sochi-riba.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21019315058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exoticland.bg/upload/files/files/15875259670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff0ac99713ca48ca90c8f6d422b2c81c/katuzafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
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