Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed253cb0206a59ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eee66be0d55475b6259b0fbbb4bf8503 SHA-1: 7a82afcad963dde4e76f68acd4462f15d60c2687 SHA-256: ed253cb0206a59ae17f251e2645d7ec4aecd4d0a6c22e9a61d64826a66fcad3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506172224324919.pdf
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/37658246052.pdf
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/38789192251.pdf
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/nenulunuw.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a786b454d---78893015976.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d958a5794---6188061081.pdf
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a775158324---73941552689.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816a481a43---58393757642.pdf
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4167981efb---90187803045.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60jnnfnua1crl05ioau86atb1g/7368029450.pdf
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39420652488.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d18b259fd04---nuwababulobifukakope.pdf
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/tokubijixa.pdf
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/54403570665.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2165d9d10---97478902723.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969de287c8d---sepaxoparunagivor.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85a0692506---75900321050.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79ce42e115c8a7e9150f22d8edf8c99/30399262577.pdf
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/napoxedilame.pdf
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/mibonopevabekedidoles.pdf
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k52hfpvki48qft7aummmr43kl6/24430181569.pdf
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaguxetonoledoz.pdf
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/40258844471.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765c623cd72---xukajaladerizuxanibigi.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssmpk04iahhgetkq3gitqu0168/42316755859.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=calcified+granuloma+in+brain+meaning+in+tamil
    • 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_off0000ec4b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010462.bin
23a738be53701472bcf4f311e9f7b936afcddbb4c4ba6d44c2ce63adcb20de7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10462 10924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d73.bin
41fe719cb15de7a54e0c43f3af2cfbe26f06d002a5e526be9e14a265a337609e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D73 16540 bytes