Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed9ef0a1fbcd98d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 17210b0b5c202217ca7d68fcbdcec6d6 SHA-1: 1b2fce434174426e851a0cb445eaa3f6011c9e03 SHA-256: ed9ef0a1fbcd98d75b130ff7df5c08432091733cdb0d874efe67062b93efbff2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is used for phishing or to distribute further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bbbee+act+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07decf6575b4bf7a4dd16e25e56e0044/96477487711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a772bd0809ec7acec0743b663720fbd/69149571315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bjt5ep94bu97neo0bmisu2tp5/ratexamizedosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/24838531005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd88855e2e---xojefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/fizomevapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7ab23c309---xufoxojedufepuzuzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51344244588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs-carpediem.com/clients/46367/File/vupulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/62404727457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610417786c44b---85054515890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e4060d2b---77771179552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/potawukavap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7bdf14tihghkkqfiq10a5u830/pugevemidibulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc9e6d9424---kiwijazijivitibupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a39ac79c67a2cb7747b99942e4981af/76184053928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluorescent-training.com/file/benurujozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4602259b55---zodixikaxubegel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7ab79453---27082077373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/zitozojubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspevents.com/clients/24998/File/wuzujenapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/judatimatutibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/lovesizobazabivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f76c98634---82206203448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/65957205962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E5 10176 bytes
SHA-256: f674604286c7f8e99fa09aa9ad9786cfe4b1629f7636394e4b823cf657e84c78
font_02_sfnt_off00010b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9B 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 26669f3c88a7addf0a0c7e0e9276c84b7fd6825a40257fa3bad21a5a64c0460c