Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eddf6ae8a969ad41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-17 12:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d1057431b424980c29383767d454d697 SHA-1: 7bb011826320e979ae563779f1155291a9e97f29 SHA-256: eddf6ae8a969ad41fc204bbe21242fdd78424d30277b3562b07510cd67c220c8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent through URL distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/detuxegokikezez.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h36i47gluq7cp4d8m3jr69m7d3/xefakuzifivunejelew.pdf
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/21790699105.pdf
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/17506622227.pdf
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa835e38ab---1844204749.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d89bcd995f---kimefuferet.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c85abbc69---gepodanixibewujuja.pdf
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79j6jadlrpade0hcracj9ccmq8/30821240601.pdf
    • https://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/nidozutixiwoki.pdf
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/sotogimuzesufilawurak.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082371b1faa1---fuvinoxifiz.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e89a3c990c1---56971113777.pdf
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/desagumoverinopazije.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7524a8e7ba---kanomuxanoxakesetit.pdf
    • http://fujiya-burbank.com/uploads/files/lotefeka.pdf
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jipavabudirilipupe.pdf
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vubikopefowomizivevuwut.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19a9f1aec532ef6bf93d34f7d50be39d/zuzujox.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65861cd3a0755df6c658cd7720df1d9c/bupolejosololebedo.pdf
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/79152664964.pdf
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/57808015751.pdf
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/febazatunasebibagubuj.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/robeviv.pdf
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/fazarefowawijoruxux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=retrieve+deleted+text+messages+android+free+without+computer
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4fb.bin
acd6314d5f52da36f3a4c6af563c9ba98215fc9d02901e4fd9dc4de4a6228db7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FB 11464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc2.bin
7f74645f01375eedbbe548a9385743812d6e30f06afef5a8e3b37afea53da5cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC2 17648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e2c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2C 16792 bytes