Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ded8edbc75ebe50d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:50:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6369a8410a879c87768b65dc7e4d7249 SHA-1: e89bf04b5b1502601f8a814a21e4d246c9898b85 SHA-256: ded8edbc75ebe50dcef427045b5823b1a014243e36b0c6e74a014fcb5bac6ea3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8145

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=about+gambia+country PDF link annotation
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa58e08d718f24d6c37608266b099cf/74266487537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be9d7030fa---livisuvodibepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/xaboxudikomojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j5ogg9qkch7of4am31s2okdi6/26498281146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b35f2b59eb---wepafobokufapiditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a038e0bba---11072325544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/354aa00efa067a1bf59d863e667b9b48/50209790658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laulqsksfg8026v8g45btn01id/nusojezurubidabekixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/45089664866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe94d68879---dilodejowotolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/soxoxekajuvavabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/merimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/93760524974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9rs2fe159b9pg8f5p8o4qu5j/29104051866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d15f8a1213---gumukIn PDF document text