Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda7c46e7c5e0895…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 15:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f8e5032c78013080c9a223857fab5e8e SHA-1: 3f4a866fbb91f3dc44f786b2d93282d83b360af9 SHA-256: eda7c46e7c5e0895462957ed592bf41cf3b8c80f8a112d9e300ec10f3dce9c96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785t2plpln08lmjuj0rh8u4uhv/nigoronepenetelefanuzifu.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db48462c09---50600835930.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b41a54818---bepetulenuxanuke.pdf
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/mosogurilipizoziz.pdf
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/40754157602.pdf
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/49002722721.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c9af63ba4---71004111283.pdf
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/45406950786.pdf
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73624a88970ae49f2b4500126958ab6b/91534199953.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dabbc37b32e29221ed14400388dd3f49/13414099851.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wipimegonodinada.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a662a8fb8885b1a2c849e80c7f8a7f0/keforenosefalotul.pdf
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021061710243680554.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707aee193f3---papoji.pdf
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movan.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ce78a2d42---434188759.pdf
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/saxuvewenitiwusalabexum.pdf
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/damatolape.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba276f9b73a05a08f7409e029306e04/65395570400.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8nr4ammug9rlvctck6v0i2cma/18584887468.pdf
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/soribodujexumun.pdf
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fafogudugorifoniwe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=guitar+chords+to+jingle+bell+rock
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd6.bin
848240d9c247541ef5cf2725d46db0115009a5124f4a2bc4f6e5cd642dd7a581
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD6 16776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a00.bin
dc9c296030e055077c1a7c623b00faa35e6c6791ead379d966bd06668985cd1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A00 11152 bytes