Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed682d190680bf0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b108d97e80eb6c368e68b498a68d7bda SHA-1: 5e60a5004c09626680001a66103ee72ddfb6ba57 SHA-256: ed682d190680bf0c3d2b4f32fc8476d24c91dc1b5e7ba4c5be4fd2e5e1769e33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/39815780319.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bp7qrluq45495qfsn827hd09d/17879394833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202107100010585829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ff7f492bc---rogifetalonuworazomisito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/kiriterijevafibimogabebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/97701295868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/61507350731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1624357615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/43516443976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878f428faa6---83647878697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355d190f1b4a22db0c6d2aa92cdeee7f/doziveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/fikevelasisepojopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d4107a832---94903874935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/66868304171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/91640138523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d267603391abb3bbf5e548cace5ce2d1/fumixidukanadetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/ruxabuxekupedazezalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/45261496181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/138930c96ed002b5cd998f889632d7c0/7763638318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents//files/sosodakupexuwutatugiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/11203879766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62bb8d9c5f8c1647b1f2510a045688d2/48912183858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mpk25un2l08p3nk5k55rqpunh/22859951085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080eec387eb8---pusubudonokesavuwobaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+dynamics+applications+pdfPDF 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_off0000c3f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC05 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 9a65de6aa1d6b1cbb2a123ec9f8bc12a168cb0765655329f21b41d9045ed4359
font_02_sfnt_off0001087b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087B 10740 bytes
SHA-256: e7c820b98f970ac678ecedc79423bb77d82371c783b5267d6b6908b31ef2ad2f