Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edeaae957105b28e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 070a05b1532b8eeb7234f43a2f7ab970 SHA-1: 48bf1b25edd34bc5494c0c21adf7ce6d69664c4c SHA-256: edeaae957105b28e6920c394e0afb215e9049d647ca0e738b6a3b3daecee8264
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document designed to exploit user trust.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb13812814b---5620850350.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/givemidiwelikelolewileva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/mokowakiwixakonavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ace48a20a---nuxodubuvaduxenojikubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867a6d64775774593a2f33a6c450ccb0/80013081480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/17564592864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/17057776108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/93875707547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/82209430167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf22dbb8d87---gurarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0f511c71a---sudelabedetalegogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/zevazakubedazebata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/65383591582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/xadumosajugefomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5411efcd958bcc225c34094b94fa92c/39541021873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/kawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021062304483373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghq2phesv6hfs3f58bocq61284/42452502938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3283ada6f9---puzemunalawasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758cd88ddeb---66905107104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6740508767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a801340962a---navupena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/67497892412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/2810597919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/mugoduxenejivobetebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9rr3tf3gf7mjt93hg9170jrbl/jadabevebirimefuxasowonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=whatever+life+throws+at+you+pdfPDF 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_off0000fd40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD40 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 611193703f0ac9f02f6d9098e2785feddb4b79c3ca901704792a072dc5e8f364
font_01_sfnt_off0001167e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1167E 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 9483406d46ac42a3b28d93d32fb8f9956c2a0e3c66bcafc9f822eb2faf35cd76
font_02_sfnt_off000143eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1