Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edfc33a2be562ce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 855161e064d3feba3a8d9beb5c6c8621 SHA-1: 7a26a75be75a5a06fa0195a6ce598a1f837902e8 SHA-256: edfc33a2be562ce851f1b2e2eec514eeeb2d6fe1dc9410c1ff499c18ba5f6e3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute traffic or host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/pabufeledojovagubole.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e8002da151---libaxarozuwoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/moseneporokurakarerozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/61227910550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14ed9bf6f3546e4673f8ea6b576e903/90836362050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68442660477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210826083459_1756939139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/fipagukajafewunolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/sosajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp4cu0101fciov5m10kvcc26r0/23559836340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415sl11uhnisel6klt82fo6kj5/63654984264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade96878413---sorefudegugiwavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/39587488328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7529b92441---75446179769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/gekibogutazukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5thaveseniors.org/userfiles/file/42997102974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33b9fbf8fc---jaluvujukupulova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162539811749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/43702701711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/dezixejureburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/gasigifesunopibanativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae303ac76d3---bifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsk69bjdc4ihvffnc9458rblar/56084805607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=jpg+to+pdf+offline+software+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7253851531.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_off0000e348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE348 18016 bytes
SHA-256: c27ba75b3e198b0a31dd629824960f159f9583ba58ee2dc13693c07347e7bdcf
font_01_sfnt_off00011224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3B 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 6c5a6b4ad062545828fafaab2682b98de74dfa659d92dc67e9c94ab8711a4251