Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edd1ee7d14fa0df1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:44:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d4abd36b431e0249ee23dd5be389b8dc SHA-1: a2f4901db2b516b208198d4da6557c3c46af77a1 SHA-256: edd1ee7d14fa0df17a8216c7f8db3e44a8f65d87b50115541c9154c4649837e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall structure point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=essentials+of+clinical+infectious+diseases+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c438919ebf2d7ffa0b489e9fb2c4ce/28136094780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/gozozufuvojemedojazezova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/jozepemukejugopurovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lezozugegazanelawanotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ac5e29e9---63163538912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/23524888305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s16er424togocambmhcs31vb3/7782343751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/78372427577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/8102625721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/funozebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesexidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents/files/39179012937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/pejavuzezewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/bojutebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/44987068759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/83418186525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/7976130649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088235a78801---17618763161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/99393504745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5acb1aae11339b4e87f6442bd8fd4ef4/18172753891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/rawijupupamujuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5f62f3667f44d0ec886773c90a33e4/61665391250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945f46dca67---71855319120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/32118864551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5g2hta91ngkp1h9v6ifhu6ap/lavikuweduzudameto.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_off0000fbba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBA 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 527091badfa5b94ac4ecf9596626c14abd80883736bd1087c0bebdab7e2eab6f
font_01_sfnt_off0001140d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140D 17712 bytes
SHA-256: ef4b5e3c3f46522fa861ca389c36a9c673ddbb4dfb2e351383f3b4dbe92ba210
font_02_sfnt_off000141ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1