Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edf38fa1a04855f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 12:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e460bcb5de177df86c9c3f5e247ff5ff SHA-1: 9b81ebea0f8400a50fea9f7fbf56bb1e65de880b SHA-256: edf38fa1a04855f50741006e4e51ee717b5c2e641239470c68009028ddb18505
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious payloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f53f8e655d---62940509524.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64832e3b1a8e9029255b225f7bed028e/67753171880.pdf
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/73712646529.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14078375cdcf2837eee15696da9d6529/folovizogolotozud.pdf
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/80976758480.pdf
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70541685358.pdf
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33939858354.pdf
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/wagavezusegopewi.pdf
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/39143298491.pdf
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/morerelokifetaxabobiki.pdf
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c5f0e587eb5a1d6144f76b0f5abf6df/26282360221.pdf
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/45991307200.pdf
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/dubigokuxerumubuti.pdf
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pofimeni.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d545f5e65afd84c50a18d303db431403/vudokutemum.pdf
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cefb8433996dadc0613b9887358e85a/zadepamamafefeki.pdf
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/75743465289.pdf
    • http://scheidenschiedam.nl/uploads//file/ferelupokukifisex.pdf
    • https://cdmsig1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torogekukowazowularopep.pdf
    • http://patroha.hu/file/lijerurup.pdf
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093af16203ac---wapomexotude.pdf
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/xaxurolatewolar.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=differential+and+integral+calculus+textbook+pdf
    • 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_off0000ded0.bin
43b4d5385b9feef24dc2fecf5ae912cdcc1edb54227bda3a3926b0e6141529af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED0 17344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012492.bin
f2b90a523393561be16d69e39bfe5393168b0cda40e0d58f75b89dd99942bf94
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12492 11228 bytes