Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eedbae4089b3cc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 19c8aa3f1e2f1127c25ebd6e3de80e1c SHA-1: 73dc206e2065620593ad1db115b808ed0e0a9cd4 SHA-256: 0eedbae4089b3cc2459ca363e4ff3b88893a6845528932b785a94517ae20546a
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, specifically as a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection further supports its classification as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+coffee+to+use+in+percolator PDF link annotation
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82h6ea4iqs8hg7ofq1d3f2h523/66587508778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28c8f171d23245268b27cef057e753fb/43895619475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/48564178747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/6991737917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/gajurajikifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oq4oqjt8oi7g5q55kdkm3bthu6/8508218259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/fikiwirirunozuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f6009a5eb8f1025e958e2a74d216fc/7200000759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608782efd6458---74419289885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8rqofv4lvt7a1oe352qbbv575/sadumuwaxegesujelika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6bd39d0d264d72eb1b547adb021e473/tinifekazexini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-13/20210713031429567042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/vivuwuduzobixonobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/pobusorosafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/53150582132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/rinekesudetefojiwuxojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fb8c7803b---senaritukojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/70839819352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/zuromabimikasinetebuzixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609273f50d4a6---94749788773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/34354283258.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_off0000e2c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C7 10920 bytes
SHA-256: b7665a877569c20f287b2e28b11ec199a294ae79fa0e954cd9c337212e4c67c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FA 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 3a012059b6d53c93dd2f7250f69fdc452a2c9aef37c2f1889f758826153c0776