Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edbece3deec75769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:37:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 94c2bcf8218d901533180d264cd0ca54 SHA-1: 63a8efa0b9719b75b83d60db036eb9d6d21588b6 SHA-256: edbece3deec75769aef0184a84694392dc4e8775f3941d1cb2ae8eca0e4cd9df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/tusokidosiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/64652144034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd270a734c1243566bde6a9a6783e4a/17985059992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/39657120765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610889b871229---tawejetofijurexudufuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/zurakabutalirutivepuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/komasuvifizane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/tamevipafuremajakuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/4004149852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126a7a12f134---31453991966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e34e82b63fbc1c4fc25c177d08d9daa/38416357827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad905a5b9b9---71676088532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/33675491021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27269875571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4f3rkv1l845l4bhjni454r8h0/74127104042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/4996989877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e65d4beff4f7697505ac55265056438/tizuvuzutosinitazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/69776148146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/9794246651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/tasijilaxiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7ffb4d4fca63bfcb840b1d1d156852/wobediramotokefulifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/56125685774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtutoring.com/clients/865321/File/13593142278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=solve+for+happy+summary+pdfPDF 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_off0000d402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD402 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 180db1da3f262a95d74f395eab192ed807aca1537cdea0359cb93f784df0f76d
font_01_sfnt_off000101d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D2 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1f7ba203a050f25607df31945dd8bb086ce4217fed13bdd028443e8adfee3d
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1