Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed4573106138ac58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 06:34:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9d0c099af519975fffaecca78091f81e SHA-1: 5f0a993a51b2054804e2e11cbc3875d994b76df5 SHA-256: ed4573106138ac58e4d5f681ee491856ad1fcb96e30a014d54ad0f4cc71715b1
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. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=le+royaume+de+kensuk%C3%A9+r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9+de+tout+les+chapitre+8 PDF link annotation
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92a45fda83ccc028ad6d2f8c364ce6de/32513265079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f349dad15f---bixesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cd06deb3c606a1a945ef689884d248/20919960888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5raknht909e2eg2hkmln02pt34/9342643546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/fibodinuxavefoxajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20d9937d22---19102353894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d3f7d1167---pupudutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadex.pl/fck/file/45861841751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/po59nkqne2v0d95j7upf3chlh1/37003303443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a42e008bd149ca5f349f0c6486f79be/20663886774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42c57bea98---zidurodosolafusojoxuzeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/vikiwuxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fac1cedc0a---3425812908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe55aeb500226ab05d5af0af27eb703/69662518665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2298359d5a24a713ab41b7880421078b/4887397168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/risazuzolenukawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d12d6cb38846a82a35a907afa05794b/28853700287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/38887583303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/18941523486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bumoniguxujapofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30edefe168a368f5153e849dde990bc/mosunugovelunejalozenufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/488695782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16265334726042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmehoa.org/clients/d/df/dff1b85474dadb967ea0c40f6d5e37f8/File/kofurizuvupofuxekuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diril.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_off0001156a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156A 11404 bytes
SHA-256: f99150449959a91c6291cd3e74aec37346d98db2657f6debf530a3ec643f15ab
font_01_sfnt_off00012fdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147ED 20312 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd6e401882c2e0f04079dfee6244c5f83e146d708c4c09e6a603ad600a678dc