Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed61035787620489…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 10:12:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 15bc8d247dcbab9bc48ee5b2f888b412 SHA-1: 5cbd9cb6d2a53b13b3009f4edc180aa5db79d409 SHA-256: ed610357876204892c6d05eee1c7c4f43a88593b43b81c48694a08da4711e7de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics points towards malicious intent through external resource engagement.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d462b638a27459cd06c49a422a9f7ae4/vexasokiwumuvovedizireza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dorekijonatabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emmanuelmissionarybaptist.com/clients/74938/File/fonodiwila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/26329434256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/88703883903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/55156563753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cde7939f8f851effecefdafc9120102/bunisemapitusimasevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/9754502321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/jumiwugigafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a9c4f1202---dajeriluliruxafuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/zikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/26142532498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48520d6504---rinapinawudadowubugeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c779c83a277---6463160006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/67644949908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0loqh3n2mlhs6usleqb26oc65l/dimomelafawimubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/bakuganopopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/39951598876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993e7854bc89adef01cdc35efa092127/5765564881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094531ad29a6---38071953724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/nikogodomute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8540779bd51e9cac0ad7aaa4164df814/43667315889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/88131506643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8eda2e8c5938eb61c1238b986b5f96d/fubedovapulame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/fopaxovureber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/fulufafolimenepakowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=applications+of+probability+in+engineeringPDF 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_off0000dfcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCC 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 33f5925aadb3499bf560976560fa9f729e3045924da3e3780dfbdf7a448030e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FA 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 526e2b358920553174325bdb0a955a3684da1884ab4e833525bc80759e119800
font_02_sfnt_off0001252d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1