Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edd74e2bc0f09108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 16:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c2298696f7bbb49b9281cfb1f82d0a24 SHA-1: 965b8c038d52ef190dda86e6cbc897f5f32cfb08 SHA-256: edd74e2bc0f09108904668e7d46481e26940be11ac8d30e0b7a6ea7acf716862
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially untrusted hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to various external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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 http://alltechsro.cz/files/36801899130.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/32303164414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/zawanunofodanaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/finigutimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e784a932fbb92ad948b68b079d389b6f/21866415320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/wipuwuzojales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/65981432079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2ff22963e36a58da4911c836df5f4b8/pawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/fosokaxoximajalogoravidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planningpvedh.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65021373396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yensaovinastar.com/media/files/funaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngbmk4hmff91rr9lla2htm87hh/98084643449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnalog.ru/images/file/77128503086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/mulunevezowisepideparibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/zixosorubepatojabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/19331601790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/dibijobepaxinonevezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/sewajofamuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a53aebafdb969bb982666d90a73d88/41515071610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210929150640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/jagefiriwubatorutoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/22488033851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/fafivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+delivery+service+to+work+forPDF 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_off000107bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BC 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 4983dc631b1c5868ac0bdff86a1580c2fc7dfe1ac849b42cf10a3cb64d8fc0e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001203c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1203C 19992 bytes
SHA-256: 96ebdf4966d64a9d101a4206425d446617bfc747793f7a5af802531cf205b40e
font_02_sfnt_off00015437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1