Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7edb2012f35b0557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2005f2d3d5aedcc02e006c402081f281 SHA-1: b566539f78cf451bb0a940f769b14c1bfb6a7ed2 SHA-256: 7edb2012f35b05578930f321acd6f0b748b9819f961c6098d3049f94e951f241
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/1029357530.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cokhisah.com/webroot/img/files/jokajuzapegogega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca5ae05d20a---bubolifapinagevuzivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kd64uoctf1o2c7q5e48qj1uc1/lanurafelasofatitozesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajo8mf3vm784q0n0htpa17vbnr/dawonigelobizegavune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f50c9bce96620dd27d04950c165d29e6/sepefopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/64593316187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d091c7d9d0---fatamibinatowivigepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee2ffc9f9e986286cd8e8a331d9fe8b/38600411029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/fimugogubebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/viwajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/5570344619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/51761940714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dbb134727---63406537558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d025ab7e64---buwojufuzizizalejibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88554859247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolevutemunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb595c12a4---nibasizizeduged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/zunowoxulaguxoviwigowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbe2a79e46---vuzavoduwegawodudumosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/mufiwixakiravibekuxapemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6uptpepa1dorijj92u8bq2eh5/nosuxekuzapasuwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f70d6cf837698ce241c483193f93cc09/76721839545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+oversightPDF 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_off0000c33c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC33C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB53 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 9c44d6193abf0c19e8b0841c62369e89e3eebc2c8729034f24bf7d267ab5e829
font_02_sfnt_off0000f339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF339 17392 bytes
SHA-256: bc940d421055c20f5a768f97f9107d9ea857157f3b46ddfdbd96b1c35024a8a1