Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed06a3f8b4ae6bf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-10-04 13:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 284a98c2f8516183054c3844bb8f007b SHA-1: 40f9ec0b55b6d410c9b14ea9df9d546413d95c6b SHA-256: ed06a3f8b4ae6bf3697f87526ae2c291c54fd7f51f7018aa1ad9f1aa5e76b392
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=medical+term+for+low+blood+sugar PDF link annotation
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7630a6ff6f242764fe21bc27959cd212/31837672176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/nimiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/34979586282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/26640593226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fesobutoxunebigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/76253907984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a87c4e0171---12346139363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/406821043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161538385a8ec8---wovulujozewusixidofejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/zuvixafesadasojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/vapidexofiponofuniwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/pipimowemivomimopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/talaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/24748541393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/60704930708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/vadibolezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/tevitisuvolabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/17723114673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirtrauenuns.ch/images/file/70392793848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41436482429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/susakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxolopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa4d05fcc7---tasugunoposafugotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/6984126026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBCF 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 263129e14162509ffd4b15235d02360433d02829a2bc4a1b8a2f95986aea66c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF805 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 04a686c11ed21e7cd29e0be481da430caac9ca9b391aa661d6eaf87f6a73b2bf
font_02_sfnt_off00011195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11195 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1