Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed88c7859f27435c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:56:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e4bc83284951a7694433db5310df844c SHA-1: db4303a093d9a45d2a988e790d9f4f9937ad36d3 SHA-256: ed88c7859f27435c2b926076af6dec964889a8cf3144bfffd5f3c7e99c7ce220
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure points towards an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=face+centered+cubic+formula
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_01134D73E5E4526D.pdf
    • http://focostrade.com/files/20210622171327.pdf
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353ccddb8c---torirat.pdf
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/61018577352.pdf
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/betopulug.pdf
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/serajupifosepevugeralasi.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df81af4d2bf---sibarunato.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/91045947086.pdf
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/gexuduleg.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12762e286b---9867037867.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ea188e02a---13780220102.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c723f13cda---69076455964.pdf
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph40pcg9c0hgjmv4bouugfelsc/wesudepebefajogixaf.pdf
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f2feef01b67486219170a78a23f0d0/jumiriz.pdf
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b0d2c4ad0f8831196622b4415cf93f/89459114800.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zeravikovofegusele.pdf
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f3a72a7f636c772ee68cde64061ff2/58036862585.pdf
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078401f2449f---lanafowozifibazupijo.pdf
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca4ea88c38c---81147033370.pdf
    • http://takeacode.eu/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/gufopozuju.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9fc01e4b55---19946466277.pdf
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qqrudu9s60j565q1g7683smi4/32084126491.pdf
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94570464746.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk9n9o68fbttcr14fuook9oelr/52504969277.pdf
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/kigelujejokevatal.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_off00014839.bin
2f4604930d0e1ac85e89a4afb6429efddce99e1c8914444eab26666d8cbbfd46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14839 10684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000160a6.bin
681cd1e4bc5c36465f69aaf55a6ad44741f16263af9b884c1ff62f1630cf89e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160A6 20120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019706.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19706 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001af17.bin
325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF17 16084 bytes