Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edff8b8cf7e1cf06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e54f19b8c1e4c5963ac11fccf46e77d1 SHA-1: f817db24401fe4bbc9ed1f27c42c487e9b0b7912 SHA-256: edff8b8cf7e1cf06ded4af88695076fb1bd8c1932aafa938aba68f3db4c10391
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised or disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute phishing lures or malware. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44023085580.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92c4a35f78baf554215608893e3caf5/57685239200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af596110111---32139520885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/3943681682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/kitixikidazarotajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/fovemeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/41783306252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78a063284001211ac2c13c50cce8c575/27586845505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710a193708b---kukatonugejotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/5120821150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/24382768625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/69032328340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d26b10474---lovopodepituzizutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/karufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93134076716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade6c9b6665---52942113699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/ridawodejujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc604b3a47---23155673799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/xikusoxifuxusamogisura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/96903327203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8698848b95bbc3d9903a046cdfa4eb/50181903789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddd9441f50f---98350363273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://produccionesproezas.com/clients/2/28/28ea8f13eb032e89cab2838ec144e7af/File/15500677173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913ffaeb7bb---guginomaxedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16090874a99687---fepuvetuxofitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=look+back+in+anger+play+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000fb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB56 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 72f92d74dfa3faddbff50d768fb7dec1f0e68ea0eefcd2486e745b224883d4e8
font_01_sfnt_off00011401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11401 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 26a7dee5f33c80f9ae8dd4014acc053b6f891b5031fbc9250dd6f84881966872
font_02_sfnt_off000145e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1