Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed56ea26c37ddb64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 17:07:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c589b111022e9dab8499464105bb7b6e SHA-1: 29021f5fe052f58f305ba064714179b05a405037 SHA-256: ed56ea26c37ddb64372c4e8644e57108fee25ff68abd8715c2b6365ef780f64f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4r55gjqh7erdpcvhsrm5cbg9jp/9545263238.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/sejeligusaserawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/99296796944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6d769651b---73620841369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a6edcc792---buzububesurekizomisines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugosawekuzulozinope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/dugovugitabelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776336841be---vunomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karunb.com/UpLoads/files/buzunomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/97745015284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/32923451833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11419a71667fa0eb938c86010d1bf56a/60243940682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed1c8e6ac0---guzadepudijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/61174037449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/pezomijidajomubodizikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthcareadvisorsgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohpnvopuekoh2u0namknd4ojk5/palepamikidurenezezulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/86674688406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62019cfe83---36738926146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/pukutube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa2249621a---88950254243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/98630604990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piuspvc.it/userfiles/file/3432999182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8esuf3066bi16lc7ikklafabr/jaragewawulosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=karakomik+filmler+2+full+indirPDF 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_off0000e579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE579 18312 bytes
SHA-256: a1832f6da508eb8aaa8d38560eb902ac6ae5fd01126faf7293fd8939b5897948
font_01_sfnt_off00011286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11286 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d64f32bfc345eefa5920b67dea22e246505ac36b1e6aaff52c17df87d0bbc21a
font_02_sfnt_off00012a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1