Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edf5046417590610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:56:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c63ef42c487834fc4beb815b77c6abbf SHA-1: 120a03164e2c959164a68c1cc0cb06e12b6d4e52 SHA-256: edf5046417590610fcdc5bafc8ca4856028e67bc35583930690f9a45c14fb4be
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support this, indicating the PDF is likely a lure to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=canon+eos+700d+manual+dansk PDF link annotation
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/boxotulofuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/vitesedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/14859720643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegman-kzn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubuxovumojobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibiwogazidadunipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58651565201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rge2k1l9kk0n8a1pu4rukaami5/noturenagularo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/24565239914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/43627178010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtntoproyalshihtzus.com/clients/4/42/42f4769cb4f2467af64fea76c5682520/File/19012444726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/20743693534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877b6226ec9---16624800879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/17116510409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/koluxokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/vonebiwapito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845698dd732---44607996454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/busesetexozetazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dapivagitosavefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/mufoxozufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace28f283849846668b8920ecf285dd5/16086861692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb54810356a---mezidatetarexaxogevixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa2482e66133ef3b6290d2de179ccc6/94556198845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/daxag.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_off0000e6c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDF 10512 bytes
SHA-256: d01f9c5bdc71a33dc78af1833511971d4f541c93f7b0aceff0e8e0764839edfb
font_02_sfnt_off000116d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D8 23084 bytes
SHA-256: 4ac52b67cd991b3f4f17e444c1efec5c8dfd1229ce3afbda7e206f7a89e88d1d