Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edad26b0744f5029…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 03:42:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cccd0c70513f5e2892acaac475eb4ee5 SHA-1: 1176c73e1ee9e036830d900108989f1966ed418f SHA-256: edad26b0744f50290ccc8e21d13f120b74e6c93e296228a576209397a46f226f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links and embedded scripts to compromise the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc7f7c6cb0---48243762530.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/sejarigorofunolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinchenfast.com/upload/file/74098005941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owop.challengersports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68057200357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/tisalejanijizuwilapaxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148b555d8ee73f22afebe97c45d37568/49162913327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/xurolizutusuwidebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/ninawobuvujixepepesojipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandvloeren.nl/fckimages/20062751132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/17075255702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e882e12da00a44858652915b351a93d2/54925409835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/21245311007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/16509508683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/13859616324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88128885640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/vezaxomitebakozadenuxoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fe0c172ac---43115822225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd229ff8aea4b9a918ad947a1d2bbcff/ledisaxedunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepatsasaran.com/contents/files/22740029121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133aa61e5990---11372999867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.com/file/48701030448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/zemavajakogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropawisidakaribazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/bevegipukezureturasokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=insaver+for+iosPDF 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_off0000d1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AC 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 45fb3d3442324cacafcf4ccbffb64a606327c20d4c6f19a5632c6a131b19d7df
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5A 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 37a9f1a6f67af658fda906cff3317558b86af06888f619ae408d6aae79de9eab
font_02_sfnt_off000115f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1