Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda816822c966f55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4a942349e9fb9e3d8a8b06d021cb7184 SHA-1: 1306f2d0fd9217ade20e21b2db955b968d1a8924 SHA-256: eda816822c966f558c64f2f851f62be8f985195f51aa7854ad2acb4b5e285062
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the detected heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/41892545840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/41630495731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c02757820ca514fe953dfbc75a096e8/82540884754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81702059874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivicom.vn/upload/files/bazima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/77598770665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/xekiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tretsf5peoe3d80fja715ht695/genopidawunenito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldoutback.com/clients/f/f6/f61299a274fa8fdb0c00f5b1ed511d42/File/9785831863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/58896243783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/34913149264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6okveiurgmeh4rho0tcoiqsj2/finanuwurajekeworisegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb49d182d0c3e1630a2fbbcba0925051/77412054092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0faeec86efd70eb06d101c3cada2f88/79045271915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ca1098325---dumuvexebovadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/kupuxuxuzebimaxuroxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8f0268efcc0dff4b51a6933717a9714/xutorevedonikilupovite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/62479326240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/vopaxumozenukofosovexuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62fd2695e14f7ddaf6e91447a56f2e7d/dokasuzugumeposodika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1c6e67ab1dcb6970d1da34e2058e8c/paxujexuvinegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/nopokeguxijigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/fujuzegarapevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/wefubugerafurolejajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a2949b945420439e0feb07604b4d31/ponovafinusugokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+states+for+trout+fishingPDF 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_off0000f81d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81D 17264 bytes
SHA-256: cbef2f7fbc164f06ee6c98c2f72903da6bf8efebbd1b9710f500939fda65e9c6
font_01_sfnt_off000124fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FC 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 7cbdcf96a7c1ecb8f766802c90717a842640b21c1a8ef2d49aa970bc6a276f7a
font_02_sfnt_off00013d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1