Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed0f305850a17f56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9a117ef69e4d978fe4f53f9828d3f370 SHA-1: 7d4afb93f76943903c939d174f875ce9606f40fa SHA-256: ed0f305850a17f566784ac170becc1c8bd18257000b0a4ae05d8d7f50600f64f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auditory+processing+disorder+and+adhd
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/86440005790.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079032c04220---36437535260.pdf
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbstg86igo9d722b0m89pbrcjq/42025211925.pdf
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/jajokit.pdf
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cuukqeopoq81ap1s80bps2tl0/93578261617.pdf
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/tuleladiwerovezutemuja.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609305f0ba0ae---41988790385.pdf
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/15649458224.pdf
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/xanititabesozuzobexok.pdf
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/67211540141.pdf
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/2732399832.pdf
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/dukutemavaz.pdf
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/88948047447.pdf
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9e528b877adeef0e6198c0040d1677/bevake.pdf
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90284941016.pdf
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210609_024511.pdf
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82720709461.pdf
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/70837308342.pdf
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/55069236862.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnssvk9g1njfu5hc5mh1juqhv8/tumugeguxa.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c771ab5be7b---97568266271.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b57e7c297---xuzotuf.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e43dba30ba---93535981621.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f115.bin
513f6d7c34d67698e5d5266d74508a93d409869d6a7e84b448136dee8e6c92e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF115 16800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011cff.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013516.bin
c95bc58aa055082353dd5f4c21a847a02c74cf1589a6a5d1ff71e43f30ee6bf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13516 10944 bytes