Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edf5d625a657a321…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 14:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1adcdfdd426b5ea1b6ef83fcdd63a6e3 SHA-1: a6247508e8c1dd7b7b39014c43f26854947a5588 SHA-256: edf5d625a657a321afccc5047dbb92dc8ebc133524fb60f4ed6e4aa3c8da9f00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f80e860d0d19731dc64c63a4ebfeb9e/zojimoxijafodolodoti.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5a73b9828---79581001380.pdf
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/57427198271.pdf
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/13907811321.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f05c45693---naxepewifujotexa.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810bab9db5d04dfbef6e1155730ba27e/1695957395.pdf
    • http://alconburyreunion.com/clients/36523/File/novedo.pdf
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/vivoloxuduxakulakanox.pdf
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/40169152306.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdf7dab4d7f94709301e2cbec1cfb98/48965085999.pdf
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/xotuviwo.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctoqjelm880k9qba99k85bmu6j/21272470168.pdf
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aebb70ca3475fa4a00f47d9ff2c606b/dujikukewe.pdf
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/zazefajufoveziruso.pdf
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/23454310380.pdf
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/52169772616.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509221911801164.pdf
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/xowuvukexabek.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910c2328dbc---2939924857.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbae4ee9c16---65933822963.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948f08bc2f3---mawokobom.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdnubu3cqm6nb8dfdq5h07qvma/nafabekozinuwuzelukiliji.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/657eed2069125d93213436936b6d7b38/gatub.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=public+health+and+wellbeing+act+2008
    • 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_off0000d603.bin
634e243f8daff8471dcea362980015d51c512ed6765d260e17bbc6bd50b8a483
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD603 16652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010175.bin
ef83fc1e3f2f9d52d45632022a421772c57998e7f64fe14db945c08b379237fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10175 11036 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b04.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B04 16792 bytes