Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed4eb92b81e84afa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-26 18:21:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f3755e4e964e10a37848f0a336fa422c SHA-1: 9dddb6bdda4c4755db72512468236378588fc343 SHA-256: ed4eb92b81e84afa80d8f431163993eb366f10ebe16fc55408b290d9892988bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is leveraged for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://whatdwellswithin.com/file/59747064384.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a138ca30---4977363225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barefoot.pl/userfiles/file/98006950547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41276259498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/notujisasonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/fetutozovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a5af0422968---fikozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/12217896677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/bizazonutinagesizetubokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098aeb78dffb---39598135056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xalolezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/videxowosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60360653750f22d8d98b2662b8a3811/bumuxirukodidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/sobepukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/29341192397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c86a24585---49134741482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9d7266d59---digakisomojukujitakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bbff9116c---duliliritapikekodejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/lomigagoriketuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a24b31e75---jozanigebixajugepulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/fojawetimigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dddcb2860ba79a4f0c198ec78a6c7b3a/21394800649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b460134d0e---51697150885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210803194557_du30vn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/feduxifovupavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=airport+development+reference+manual+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F8 10844 bytes
SHA-256: a62079fa79801fc74426c0ef39a8022618e18efcddd9d3bc4b8f864455404ebe
font_01_sfnt_off0000e107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE107 15972 bytes
SHA-256: 12c698d2957956ff8f5a9819758132ce22d2bb63b0695fe45558e17658d8e1c7
font_02_sfnt_off00010a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001222c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222C 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560