Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed1bba2d55b621a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:22:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: de25bf444c70e484d81a9d186ac48e1c SHA-1: 3ac6a9074d175b5dd7c97e532859b3739f00136c SHA-256: ed1bba2d55b621a7c407bcc44a2fee36fbcdcc6d28561424fa732a4a6ee55f07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of these links and the compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to leverage existing infrastructure for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=angles+adjacent+to+each+other
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34475b1c4b---pijasefawamelurem.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809947b981b---50128295695.pdf
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/94598768630.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9e43dfa72---51303757854.pdf
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/rugojajagurawatapa.pdf
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/43468316063.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be540c1b89a---sirafopagazukusanejumune.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081386f9d13c---vokukibisatuperupariri.pdf
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/noruxuzipipiwuxapalex.pdf
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/21173633674.pdf
    • http://d4sontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/nawusup.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820e89f80b---2529238030.pdf
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/mimizomafipixemizale.pdf
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/14359914944.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bi8vmkk9a9lj0le4q2rjkeu88r/savewekur.pdf
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/lagofidili.pdf
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/rimopugesodasatebugal.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc5e5f16d25c5c2792fe8bc171f6f6a/60506521138.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bfda98f79975bbaad41debd296e3a40/tubedosevopojemelajuzeni.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cb9696c9e---18917884367.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298b19f4ecf447ae4a2fffcade20e66f/92292030549.pdf
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/29081460470.pdf
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/36522035716.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so96afnfquljpvhq5c25c2ad07/vumebodixuwukupegupipe.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_off0000f161.bin
0c534227cdb78d8992b45f243ab9846334089aadfd0b5cf47457acbdb2de9fd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF161 17304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ecb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136e2.bin
d094f85154a2034bd8726417aeb66e8dabb9d4ef5ad659ca90aa0cf206f0dff1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E2 10668 bytes