Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed53752ac2c593f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 04:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 01adf74ae944f8855d440d98ea61a8be SHA-1: 1b3b96982f0863ad5aae7a445adca429a5259e70 SHA-256: ed53752ac2c593f36458e729ce3712286b256f5be39db8f87b9c398c4b49d990
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking links that lead to malicious content or further exploitation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/vevunow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.dagmarsvendova.cz/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29712500166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/22828048671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogedazomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96884270ac---vifoleladepakananokasile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b801af37e6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607641d8950ec---rogajufusuraxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/90882964550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e99f7c33b0cb24e0dce1461a7adfd2d/bejagopabifatexowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/puwedokafapawodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501ab67c97a9d8f68d37ffae66801f03/99909592634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/demilabofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrjok.com/uploadfile/file/pumatemipizuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/37563945468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bdab7ac22b0e6eca56dac505c30a4d/bugimipefanejejusowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/bubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8753364783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aadc319a9c15763e57836fa93c23873/46636561896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.houstonorientalrug.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41254518376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/26879175097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/bijewukavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09a01f9af051db4c84484b6142f56c04/205301784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+biology+of+cancer+2nd+edition+test+bankPDF link annotation
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40212998271.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_off0000e31b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB32 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 189b6067eb1aa39752cb08576fe6160b787affd0d5d826522da32b84a9ac800a
font_02_sfnt_off00011537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11537 16740 bytes
SHA-256: fe5a8ec3fbde5ded219e844f1bd30ff21ee45e7b4ce7466f7ef685f7e54efe84