Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1edd6e46bb1c9404…

MALICIOUS

PDF

159.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:17:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4674715bc4dbe05027d67dbd8fdf7527 SHA-1: 5b10852842e046f012dbbdaa500f0e4ed00733e5 SHA-256: 1edd6e46bb1c9404dc4822d612b2c2b8d7620344aa2f56411668f3c2f7db82dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the heuristics strongly suggest its purpose is to facilitate access to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/30455365897.pdf
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/sidilexuzuxudom.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm2ifr0dr0acbpvdt1gjj35th7/lapadaxiji.pdf
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/tufifatizewifu.pdf
    • http://trhs64.com/clients/c/cf/cfad56e582d93fa9eda51f2516e23bdb/File/33591024650.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/lirigeregefa.pdf
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/gekovezowazanoxusesefude.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b990a8b8f---lujewi.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c94bndoe6ovsuo440pq5822ru5/xakijinugifewovasaxozoki.pdf
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2605625525---47336388988.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2e7fa1b56---riwekitafo.pdf
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7e6dcp6hsdsbtb0jelcmo0v9h/gogemulusowofir.pdf
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d243vuopmks4gg8t5nqhkhcq2/nebaximut.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da027c9c693---62160640246.pdf
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229e10742a96a7afa01e47f5c4e7972e/mojuxifadikiwor.pdf
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/75131930245.pdf
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/10792821676.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flcfsbn83begmk3gdq7s0l77em/bimafiwofidolonadalazak.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/dodur.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fc5e8e76b7593b70660d24f18023ed9/86886152397.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fe9e62b11c95ca32c5593a58cda8a6a/55148168310.pdf
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/69200980458.pdf
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/37389889972.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=hitchhiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy+dolphin+song
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000210ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x210CA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000228e1.bin
c38dc1f1cfa9fd60fc80cfcafbb0f5a660e83a9f50fa305e359fd170948898eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x228E1 11228 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00024305.bin
9128c9604e41c4854aa78d39f6e4c46d746b42b6879e269733d8ea0999eb2e46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24305 17176 bytes