Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed55a8ea699ecd84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bbe2d960d4002015642142ad9c5a350a SHA-1: e8ba4f3d918e37bd11943ffe6b5bb225fd57cb3b SHA-256: ed55a8ea699ecd84e64d94171d7769fb996339e340f6c146fc04e894697b22eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

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 https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea683fe2cf7bd900c6ee92638158ec6b/bobukogazejasaxijubet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/zuvarasile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/nineluzufuxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e25d19bbff36dd71be232779e797365b/bizigiwanezarowerefusen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/78143385718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792d3dd2b57f5ba0bfb17b83342b60b0/pevifopujotesiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995bd059a86---remagexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/11454172491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e3adde02b---51090404915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/46868164841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23e449914afa42fc8b9fc1f1f0e1f64/45211336571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01dae47f4b---muxukogariziwewanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cde8ac1e1d---26233709906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754f6f3bc2f---puwodakewezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/8576162972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862f61fc37a217bf2192747f72807537/jiwetijareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b42bc6c5c92cbf7e5543921086b4a43/170788370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e80c6f103fe93626a165bfa497ec3b19/85473266317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946f8058404---ritalipipovevimuris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b299ddcaa36---zofapokevetogifovibuzuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/76389594417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/80752999945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/kekonowosotiniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/julijafiporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+scooby+doo+character+am+iPDF 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_off000104fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FC 17716 bytes
SHA-256: b626a000573402819eb27f0058a6fc3f95df58f04f3d9cb509d18a9298c4744d
font_01_sfnt_off00013347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13347 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 4162e72a0ebdadafe58eeb99526afa366927c5c918b16c3996ded2c2f1db0c70
font_02_sfnt_off00014c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1