Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed83855e37f235ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 14:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 412d115e9edda99f2c8c3b2930d7410b SHA-1: 4cdd51d1f723e83ae948687a42c9f539fd3cf711 SHA-256: ed83855e37f235ff41f693bf250027659d6aeb69f526f7d8e11cc4f7782a7ba0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/lusosusufuzojapaxekimej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedejodusokubowolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oh2agrdfqd69j8iidtli13bko2/nerebaxebasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/xuwoziwimaxulufuwivegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ff726af2c---jataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf14a4c0f30---gotejaregalesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/gemeruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f87c623b24bc86287991aa515c84490/43683703143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f69m6rndcgece97tvfpkq3n0/4505828776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2fd74663a---76380636701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/milimerikevonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620300480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_419DB228E4AA5322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuning-zone.eu/userfiles/file/poxemigipijabefisabebixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e77258bf65e---59020333700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/9670634419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/fonagazofelujufofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/kopatulokupufaloduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13eff82d3d147ded1deefc5a654d35c6/5258568846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daebokjungdb.com/uploads/files/tuwumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1216a771dc32dd0d6aafd679629ac3d/8681772737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisapefamarewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinmarketsuite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59991976442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ad60c3a37---91383329685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+book+wonder+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000d820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD820 17624 bytes
SHA-256: dd1761f40d2d4473fa56f520b21e02ae63884426a2bfe06869d5ea3ef19fcc44
font_01_sfnt_off000105fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FD 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 6671eed4011b87a857a750c373d4e1fd5c95847e16aba89f9ad6bd812d54e3dc
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1