Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1edb67216e3827b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 69c2bf6163b5d76e5c0148b7f965e402 SHA-1: 8070c2afe1c8499183f0a863c86075ef7789bdfe SHA-256: 1edb67216e3827b315d9e8ae1e34a158c8629f71751c0c771abd8e15ab30ddb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://longhoang.vn/upload/files/zofoni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zowosogufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607759dd63dfb---41011927532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc5fedef6f1---90768204231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc31cf53da1---xetewevojovuzumejelukorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starfoil-mail.nl/uploads/wysiwyg/tenimamigebuvutagetofegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf7888380b8---31417299324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewivukukoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a93be9fa595c9bd6bfe904e7b30d0dd8/42183983076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a8ac41529bd7b70c5212f732288cfc/bodomopubod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc0097d92---nabexibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/suzenerekiwatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_4B6916C17AD726F3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c8330825cd08dab47a7c268a074584/41288751271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c6fba29d---modupirovazabasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/49829395680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/87752517500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/tawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/68474968790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/5541_20210708070420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609612225f378---30701771933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3ce71367d---70197560560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cold+war+zombies+mapsPDF 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_off0000d3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F9 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 2d27ad9dc107612e77a33df41199ff393fd4e32e0cecf135ff8d75a91e9a5c28
font_01_sfnt_off0001017d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017D 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 823d0341fbaa493afe60276a1f63b314fce1a6eadaaa386e111d6f7fe016d203
font_02_sfnt_off000119cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1