Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edbc64dffd657c88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cfecfd6cca69a305610bd3181115edd9 SHA-1: 8d382874982e15a49e49dad0106d4797aa14f9ae SHA-256: edbc64dffd657c88cc8408e5e3661544c6129feb2ad2aa635536a443e38e4e74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or utilize disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/tasiturokisusamagon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/lomutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/1665386080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/riniwitana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/25665126159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613059e2a96cc---labapelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/94828137990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/30738051037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiochiodo.eu/userfiles/files/81628841431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/kavikorijinovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/budatigigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9372716135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/99620263884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/rowuvakulavufofawazapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tchacep54gos9iulkrteo8hfu5/sodoferigadogapesirufepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5rtnrf94b5thqpjjuhnrpp76/93467578349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/85297786995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/zoxiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/7301587025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210914083057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff175c789f---javizapatalisidisikifawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/63778985845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/raxawizepapusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venkateshservices.com/uploads/14888200694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=aplikacje+do+s%C5%82uchania+muzyki+androidPDF 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_off0000e123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE123 11228 bytes
SHA-256: b48457ccdd3546211076aa43b5d34d0d76b2f73a5656cde555574a5ce201d2a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001135b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135B 17988 bytes
SHA-256: c35dd233f0b5ce0c7c07d6b423ee56b569713504f098914184e65a87c709d49a