Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2edaf080a943e55e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 00:56:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 66f42ba49bdf4b6acad54f7e58d36449 SHA-1: 7622d77285e0fba3122065b818c95b516effee28 SHA-256: 2edaf080a943e55e428c7ff9b50a9010000d57325738221ae22b327a5dadea0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_URI' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quickreply+for+android
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/bikodepavon.pdf
    • http://bellamy.tw/uploads/files/202109011152456631.pdf
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/85029480106.pdf
    • http://vestmorecapital.com/images/epost/kudiv.pdf
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/76909980917.pdf
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210919201529.pdf
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/50596925388.pdf
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegavojo.pdf
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/menazuk.pdf
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bosinewazu.pdf
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/jamikapezodi.pdf
    • https://clinicaalcantara.es/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/nuwori.pdf
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/9765528041.pdf
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/44581117501.pdf
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/20515361928.pdf
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/pidada.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fef12d2bf4c9870a6f82cd8c9e37500/bowakarufeg.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399c1bdcf04---16067482247.pdf
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92751436865.pdf
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/kevijikufez.pdf
    • https://zahidnawaz.com/UploadedImages/image/30909893544.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ce54e3e718de5b99d83d9177693fad/74776703330.pdf
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/pafuxizibu.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161454ba6112cf---66126563456.pdf
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/10370114017.pdf
    • 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_off0000b058.bin
7176e6103b31b7c1ee3e3b8a598854c8596845aadfc7ffedbd9c353c67076d5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB058 15628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000efe1.bin
18c1b55b6ecfbd93ac8279f05cf922a75b845ce56a1b54193d4d6e13a6d4255f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE1 10712 bytes