Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed317d0d8e1dc528…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-02 14:44:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d04e32ed9cab6abde1d4b78ef328463f SHA-1: f0696e1f41feea9bc54fde4c689918846d83ff20 SHA-256: ed317d0d8e1dc528f9c5bab61580af97e5b330dcde5c8d48a749dab273e7b61c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://acril.ru/ufiles/files/79056072793.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/zunogoluvemepojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/71957129549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/74865800371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/lolawekituledukuwetez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmoooet9b3f3mo7s7ferpa2cth/jogenibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptoptranganh.com/data/dulieu/files/xevufedegixupejipekasozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609273adc27b7---sesine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/26726651079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f14b45bc6a---boduxujovakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c553511bca5---kebepuwarelejadutobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b08ea79d3---16732927418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e79240becf7---15297995030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/tukodawigasetajosusakuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/sawebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993b175293935372585774bf020fae61/29331899697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226461f5ca14fb00de9b0cd2e637f205/jesagofuwunafuxisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f95b67d682---84856162062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/35679212901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778e1d47de1---6725915479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/22/file/20210622_182022_174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ea2829fa18f8aea084f0d0420d5d20/jorigilabugewatotorolinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c626c03f44f18daca40a97bee8de3051/tiziluwobobonesuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/nejekowegopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f42b9322d7---wawuzozimuvesukoruroniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+10+full+movie+subtitle+indonesia+streamingPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f65f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65F 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 7286e3341943b29cc5db46f74aa7a27db0eeb9a9489878da05cf00ceb9224b6f
font_01_sfnt_off00012306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12306 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B1D 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 799ceb1d5c3d22260d66b14c1e5d750693c2baa84299dd4619edd3223b02487a