Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edfaac7687b75da0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:37:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7adfd73640a76393597aa59d017171a6 SHA-1: c490a8dd9fd0cf055805e287f26c6514c90b7907 SHA-256: edfaac7687b75da0e2f7eec927c74f6998a7e431c4975d9f5e6ea83decba766b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a seemingly innocuous document to external, potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/94170496032.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foreverymuslim.net/home1/forevev3/public_html/foreverymuslim/upload/file/wufepisorovujate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/fijipumifimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139df2650704---24993318699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togul.org/sites/default/files/file/tajuxasipaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613919b64e4f4---valemewadunojagilowoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofcmqvf87ropeskfpdge9vjnsn/gejojakuboziwemalobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents/files/sisosejabanazavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/83348754982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614233b223f0d---dipedudiziloxiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913193359702953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49655932164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://origo.ws/userfiles/file/35497488102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.com/userfiles/files/ranapiboralin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/limuluvibugewomigonukova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/62255840295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitt.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawonetosewimafazekorom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwbaltimore.com/uploads/files/zuwirafiremurofinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7q0mavr3mf04he13p5c8uv9ie/mowisesexuboxoturenagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/geravipisuziluvaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/59924856660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahyi.ru/images/file/vebizobibedojebijini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkatsov.com/userfiles/file/55249363479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/lagenotejukoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=time+sharing+operating+system+examplePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/916e4058b2545016c8c364678a8a3fac/74209763364.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_off0000b21e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB21E 14880 bytes
SHA-256: fb4a3d152dbe1993aac79ffe72f306dadf258db9257baaeb1463e62204b66df8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBD 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 71819baf8d2a809355618caf67c45d613368498ca483df564836fa073362c00a