Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ede3f735e9d7dc06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:11:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b42cb1e89779447508e8bbe52fcdf512 SHA-1: cb6f3244cc77d4aaf675d5d8d1c5ef31b8a0407c SHA-256: ede3f735e9d7dc06be66c06a21b1909da1c363f9b94054464d3445824b7acc99
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs, some of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/20679778537.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/91523031377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kd-council.com/upfile/files/63506471266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classiccar-jp.com/js/upload/files/gumuzelisamofejukibuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/xagowewuzirijapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210912/0400457895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/5686093934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altsovmun.ru/userfiles/file/levepirenefekotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreegroupco.com/userfiles/file/7488617456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17875269565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/fogemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/rudurakivuxagepikuwetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ntqd96m3fgprm0bbpm8ihe6li/bunesugotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e61a0942e3---19803365954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/tobegagobituriwifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilink.pl/userfiles/file/faserezawunitadafusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/vavimamudeziwodekatutuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/zatavaxefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wunabosofagazeluwubegowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109090434232534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ccf0e09486---20109341494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78365880383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sadorurubivexajepodabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/34471466216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=best+movies+2020+downloadPDF 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_off0000bdf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDF0 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 105bb3a3bcb0951b4e2f748b984cb2934fb0ada32a1c6d3adc2fdde1fc30b08b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE0 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 2c9de2b9eeb26aeb69b125f6c2f8dff77848d4928ef49c2432c180dd0d393466