Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed57b690d34f8012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-14 12:46:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 376e97c8b4b158977efbada4f22cd603 SHA-1: e6cd40a21ea1b5c3c3450d7eee3c768e45c85047 SHA-256: ed57b690d34f8012616a12da317061c7acf9b11c984865a59879784eeef11e53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+sell+cars+on+gta PDF link annotation
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3qngh6cqv4tisruejpc3u26q/wedajekadujiketek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibiforstarlight.org/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/69946662121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443dd79ca4e4db5aaa9dd8e9bddd6546/48926399625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a465dfa1729---2397354535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/robenaxafizebofamolunevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b088f9b857a---48430631951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/753978f24fa1e8d8474b935e3e19036a/lofubaruwovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a877e3773---retakewipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608858bd70e2f---mokewuvemerabukameweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d523c94fb---62651914102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/40871809851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a4f110800ae00513f813a05560a27e/47825082464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b138474538---23053150907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb5a66aff66b5f1e5fd1594fd7b2be4/61921946143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077153ee8fe0---rukesukekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28d333b27e---pobufebugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD959 4924 bytes
SHA-256: bf819f7e06d7f93231bf0fde8021772ca3e329bedb2c5e0507da08a32f4d7465
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA36 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 82334d4be4b1ce247f52e02245dfe63df9cebdf73a7f62d575342586d4815ff4
font_02_sfnt_off00010ed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED3 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed423fd6f64a2accaab24a388a557cab9318e50e2ef4475c53ca1e35efe0f17
font_03_sfnt_off000125e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333