Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed73fb47ca7cc39e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 03:43:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1cd1f43ae5269ad951eb5d18d22aa589 SHA-1: b1f42ea4cb555c9d136a5713161fc73f8f3bc6c9 SHA-256: ed73fb47ca7cc39e52fc707b995a5e93e88062fd0cb590d3904e5e4228f0b82d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other malicious PDFs. This suggests a link farm strategy to distribute further malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b1ecd83ca010703d0d70c8ed23501a/wipimesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75acd5f81f---47802275207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca938f21679---31335583322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/tevabepidivodinusuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609771d13ba8d---87182820525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f959acdedb2532924655d8b85bacf0/76943438353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/68885930759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35324087556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/82382310190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7bbd96c559---69087900928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/bikorosasefolipiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0941a328df1ab3210986bdd657f32faa/gatiboduvofere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/tanulanevekobimogifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b858777a8---wixivamejapalezejutoxufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/mowepafisenikifodimavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/gokoxuxokofodabiwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/defubimefozafamiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/puligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a89c029476faac84c8b24441fecbd3b8/88046598450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/vepibozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o09i4ali12sc4otohl4drk6l7/guvodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv6j7q34l1l3837j7n249kbnao/beteveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dipafajinotagesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab4bc110871fc15c0843ca9cf90c37c/80410511589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/judalonate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=current+road+conditions+near+mePDF 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_off0000f9bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CE 17076 bytes
SHA-256: bdf83411ae466c39f8fd464b1ab41c16c74bbc28c8773c9051e2967d45709680
font_02_sfnt_off00013e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E61 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 052c8cc46b8226a4c1da7217e4828d59c8ec5d4cba0177896d9b150f258b0a7b