Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edabb74c2afdb2c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:16:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e941a5978864db2767dc4b04fb4a6613 SHA-1: 12e5242cc1a230255f8e51de9056652b3d023a91 SHA-256: edabb74c2afdb2c23feb5ae7ca44c6355170a5cdc5146e56c2f4b9f1ca56ed4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious campaign, likely involving spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+white+rhino PDF link annotation
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161492e439de11---zaluramonukif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/28163042297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/20454654039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/24391305509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3dco727n8bplv1bvkm5rgtgu5/74072636270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepivozekezironej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/jusalibiwimalopamoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53780095726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///32583751873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.qqtogeljackpot2.com/contents/files/43534480894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/23465597892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupafurman.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/1899168163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyliver.ru/files/files/16647817357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/vefoleviwafegugomobabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/gitelixizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/lixigerevitoxakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614606d9133cb---10406349037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/wevixasetezapedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614812e5806a2---96736654695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siliconautomation.com/userfiles/file/fasirimaterusilajojosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/kenadodogarikodusuxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/61489045581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210919160117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruvinodji.com/Userfiles/file/xidixuroritawuwovupesiz.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_off0001387e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1387E 20848 bytes
SHA-256: 4202eabfe1ea546a1895e2bdeaac5cd522f833c33a2a391e1d775d3e4015e025
font_01_sfnt_off00016f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18716 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 4e97b1618fe09eccc1c1ac4c576e0d84289f9a5920cae387a76b9ff1df8e7d6e