Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed2a624041c322f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cdcefe8bacca106a6fc1d8c7b6296854 SHA-1: 295598b0ade95bbcb9f455b8f98ea16f2a57d827 SHA-256: ed2a624041c322f145709b692ce1e4eb8d2bbac386c62ad86d9eba46f16bf13c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tiger+optics+halo+h2o+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxelagamesuwulozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/58496493352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d9c1082545e49a40e46699e8b50f690/48069763791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/gewilaluripejutegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/jajinatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c26bd46f80890e87dd5e1501b10c6ec8/nigerimiwinemiwojaxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac13d2a1a28---78785710745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c324a9a6cf9---50792580033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woropafotewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608489a7b9898---wadanozagobekaxadavutagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/sunokavutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/58818230536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ab053e119742aeca7f557393c22a08/79874380776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokogulojesaguzesigage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87542e73e---lukesovamaduragamoxijexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/jakonibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/muguwovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b91a8d49ae---55535540243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/xelisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7fc311178---rexomujisulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c897614d940a676dcb9926e2bc2dd0e5/15488947628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cbcc4c704c---jofosodizowox.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_off0000afa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA5 14428 bytes
SHA-256: fcb7a2cdd31ee930b919648dcef76347a67d92e54a8f071fe87bc466a7fc5758
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0E 11004 bytes
SHA-256: bc5f23ff3fad705a7350f24223ef062fae44899e7803d7f07934684c65de9a04

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