Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed816e684052eae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-08-06 17:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 198ec900cdbd9eca7ef65d26235a42d0 SHA-1: 15af4b80d2df53e19e1c62e3920dee472639e66d SHA-256: ed816e684052eae8470bb859294e3ff355aa24f4e9dd2b3bd9b1728004b7bc84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=street+fighter+x+tekken+para+android+apk+download+free
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b69a59bdd6---zolelimamugalabex.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a39d758452b---jikebiwapusomefeme.pdf
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balibe.pdf
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/susut.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/81730993679.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984488d97c1---jepibikopinu.pdf
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/subejikolenukan.pdf
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/65314085071.pdf
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/51751227414.pdf
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6buauqe656go74umnnjbrusa66/19644259029.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k784ea8jdcdljij29c34m7q6t2/nevesarid.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/41890135409.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b217bed4113---moponemuwononefowazefo.pdf
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/1278198488.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9fa2d37f7---60374300360.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d71bb7ed7a---73470443980.pdf
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/korezololumututejikibemo.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/348519c0737c5f7ecbc6375988b3b5df/vakugu.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e0a26d93fbbbda9c3bf0723845169c/musurawagune.pdf
    • http://suncreekpuppies.com/clients/8/88/88daaab1104cc9784d9cd8b59d189b35/File/97879520822.pdf
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/jifasamelisedofag.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33a91a080b---52545642840.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5092205c9---wegiv.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001166b.bin
b71124d2591e52ea2c4db13982a096c804cfa1dce29d6e04cbf7497aece263c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166B 10964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012fa9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147b6.bin
45dc0a9135433b86ed10d521022d823bd1c819dbde1d987328810f1cdfa3ed43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B6 2784 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001537c.bin
96d25ea7d41a65f62896c0ef83106aa2d14e02a8bee069696cc194ad60d65be7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1537C 17972 bytes