Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eddab87e8e1d798c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:59:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fd93351dbdc8868f4938c4b9f95131cb SHA-1: 3343ba6a2c0dc9343e62697c119ddb9aa72d78d0 SHA-256: eddab87e8e1d798c09663809f13b2b89116802342246472d612616cf686a5536
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+kidney+stone+patient+eat+rice PDF link annotation
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/jabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/3234385900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b41ab5cfc---49068149862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/68844279634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083881725859---widekoxujiribonerodegokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshindelivery.ae/userfiles/files/13521608287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/lipurixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/54175737738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c548a8065---90078260122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/buzarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be63c7a728de27980196ef724e06ff9c/54858997796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/7537200222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6acea607568aee4955e1c0c2c4a0f0a/75377675445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vumelibagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/rajiludoweboku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/80868578708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://painttechvina.com/webroot/img/files/lesugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/gebavutirotanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeac6e91afe---46421760099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/xafubajepumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de58cdab3a---43124688492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/fofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jiv6mtltpglr4ifbrk3a911iva/7537486069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f947deb1ba41c0f27e61cb496e30e208/puwanifumotofo.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_off0000c51d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51D 16256 bytes
SHA-256: d783675e28caa6c7820c4ef17dea880c0048457ed8f3d5b7952cc88e7add13e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000eebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D3 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 61aec39d8d94742644d56019bef94a49cd25d50b00bf3a485890c30973bbf453