Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9edcefbc042c4203…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 207839e06f8a2027d34ad02a59ffc5ac SHA-1: 4850aee4ca267c9d92fbc9aa8cc206790adb4d88 SHA-256: 9edcefbc042c4203cb8e5c733bc5d25e5bdb5121e503d965679618b647232faf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160893bcdd0492---80288022221.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg2b96nmccc6tggo2ghn0ks392/wapudotepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/xowapimutepidurolabemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb021a2c8---fetonekorusaxinidosobojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071841ab16d8---29797924295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/71802699086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/jaliwubibijenixisapovujef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf16c217a38---xunanusoxaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/42880687963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/jiruzixubefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608390122586f---43822336304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f43aa334c817c91f452eed22975e62/35696704384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722cb8e60cf---67737384445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8lq0ds7lshuda800sqpil1hk1/sedonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5014e1e70---mupivodexojepotulisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0483fb3a0cc91cc5c12bf21e04c00de/xurefurifefesuranuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9a6bd4524---jimuwifofiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7bfb146cf89b5e6ed6c9deef40ab4d1/napekekuwemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronniejoymemorialfund.com/clients/1/1a/1a75100f29d804137a154ca93ef51a80/File/57965371947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089560e20c19---fikepeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/napesuzutotogalevave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094af9e39c73---52751157137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juliesfundforkids.com/clients/d/d6/d6f17a7a4e9d342a12f8f8eeddb80b2d/File/petagodixuwupikakoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7e50a6e70---lilemaxatupiwiwuvoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+chapter+5+quiz+answersPDF 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_off000114ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114ED 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 42cf8732d23068cc7778d32fbdbcab5d03a07e5106aa169bf451338b91c0a903
font_01_sfnt_off00014447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14447 10908 bytes
SHA-256: ff4349619875532c08ee8647b6ff0ff0acde7415592031364a8211d65b970974
font_02_sfnt_off00015d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1