Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edbe9c7c0cb6f7ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5c107599ac2c31d466d1f91b1cfd1e98 SHA-1: 432b89994c0531391dbec3558ae119b4ddb66714 SHA-256: edbe9c7c0cb6f7ca0d014c9abd79805f81d125be839f0f69001e510ec25843a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely intended to host phishing pages or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d491aa52f6---tepivokutare.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/kovulezumatiguzeruwigogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/jorudoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5rshjmt0qhhh91lqnm7chgrbt/2798228163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105130633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/95386906151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/tiwumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a623205378d---30326290079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8586124edcc4bd13087abdd9ff148a/tegijipovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/76325375789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/kijawuvilivuzipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6442211c87---tolonitexuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad68e6c0c77976907dcfa3a9e95df1d3/kutiseler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f9e964b73---zelumeberugowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e71c75b8f---parisubirojogozixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i0c23i4r5vh6rr523dh3rjakh/31634000547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/vikonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/52859984283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c9215d0237a1e4009f453406c8d3b4/95652471359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f31c68052a---93899345438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be32a7f18873602db8cdab1342e6a135/78311481051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116c9cd9b6ce8c44bda212d5ffd10575/gusasuwifalezelesufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335d931fb941450a028c487f67aa3b78/82915650888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a35300c569c183e173bb78771d6c225/14526425861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/lukasutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=my+singing+monsters+how+to+breed+schmoochlePDF 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_off0000fbab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAB 10988 bytes
SHA-256: df8941d6c56ee6168007c35f4639f7c461387a28d32c4aeb34479e9c9916e9d7
font_01_sfnt_off000114cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CDF 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 6c8976fa6a2d9db5c747ad000f4db9752f97958431741f1229155d55f2f482fe