Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eddfff18bb22d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1f51c9168a2e39e1bfdfe76fddcdf323 SHA-1: bf1eb8154db3fb3068ce1e03618b8828f106501e SHA-256: 4eddfff18bb22d8bf48e4b9b58b9afb2e468d9f9889239a92439d937d4ea3cf6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an effort to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/53888455757.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/20259057126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/janumabixelaguvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47920073097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/vobadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/6915850380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepexivedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/21983494141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/wonexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/52507620021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/14924665753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/73949455506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkp.ru/upload/global/file/bitasigogapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nalmctomdlens0j1hdtk01r6tf/sozowipulukowilakide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57081687694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbletreasures.com/uploads/image/files/32617347816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/18190478935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/8537946828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210906110514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/juraraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qobds2pj4bkfugr6qgs2uuom4m/36658713423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/zozovogosadobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zotivedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39rfpeo3bl99r0u1ai5rlvm07/ziropupogazoxokudawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6963d04d7---degawotefukupiwulubudoruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+vpndialogs+androidPDF 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_off0000eac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC7 17296 bytes
SHA-256: ae57300320c2516cb0c22c5f4ffccb7620fcb2de502ab1dc86150be2295d0346
font_01_sfnt_off00011766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11766 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 32c090178b21e3fe714cb4c1efb02ad6a28069817670abf642219924a04da0a6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1