Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edfd13216dea493b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-25 22:52:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f3f06975fb862a47d0a9cde8b1e282fd SHA-1: 9fbafa9a17d8349333f0d700e825195b99a85ba9 SHA-256: edfd13216dea493b4a027549204a78571c5d2a3c2f0bbd621fca6d0525d0695d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/1964138622.pdf
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/58720946301.pdf
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufireb.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467f645fe0f---65801523114.pdf
    • https://rm-parketi.si/uploads/gepak.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1e611f01e---33627014029.pdf
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/23329453892.pdf
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9920138936.pdf
    • https://apexsafetyproducts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxovaropetuzabaxumadufud.pdf
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/24982019381.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094ecfc7bd3a3cdf48acf488cb6a22c9/21904501145.pdf
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/25253705485.pdf
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/dibekoxujitewinifa.pdf
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109180556275569.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nc6borpla1be4oungbqoskcm9/88060171301.pdf
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/kimofataja.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d85460bc9f---60812541361.pdf
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/xitukunaxorelejopopeker.pdf
    • http://camdohungdung.com/upload/files/91329115289.pdf
    • http://radis-rrl.ru/userfiles/image/kotoxururuvoxaramix.pdf
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/35241074666.pdf
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/16557172656.pdf
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/wudanurovawikaminofi.pdf
    • https://crbz.ru/userfiles/file/jalazajaxibojetebaj.pdf
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/bolexumiwerivuwumovekusev.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+change+your+location+on+android
    • 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_off0000b434.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB434 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc4b.bin
00902c65795828ad6938f0afb741c1681fd54ec0ee537257514d5b52a72e07d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4B 10772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4cf.bin
f342f0c54114b9f925163a42474e0a056b9cbcc307a50ce8a0d90cfde086dd63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CF 16072 bytes