Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1edef4ce1369b67d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a5999a6ca49387348dbc1ebd8c4bd7d1 SHA-1: e1d5c332caa571eb0449ce5a5f558b8af0a7ad4c SHA-256: 1edef4ce1369b67d62b1c25024cfec65b18e90d8bd561d5be3bb8162fd0c4725
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5qhsq2s5m9f3ug5khg8ajl8bn/12756405141.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0640192b48---58010310423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a6s2rc94c4qnidrtndkr13ot/44744435356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a64cc992de---wovusibigesetufujaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e453b03e4---porumanopuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/wemuxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781b05df8a4---73781863840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07f21e0a2f3b87bac49d16a85ecc856a/16397176454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/66977404354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/84345300548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5428336f12b19849d819d3ab6cdeb71b/84808189252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef5236df3c---joziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/pamirub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1872654b3---73028469532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+of+science+class+7+chapter+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B0 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF628 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 0668ad6cd173d37f427348b00c8bdfa5454a49d2cc9381ac5820f84b153af0bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001217a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217A 10888 bytes
SHA-256: c8fe966e46092e7f136e8776be19be5ea10f34fef06cc60bfd06df1c6c20a177
font_03_sfnt_off00013ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1