Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eed52dad7552385e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bdfce296c598e4c34bb9bcf80bda3f9e SHA-1: 6346664dad1976fd7dbfb110f423769526f0ac2e SHA-256: eed52dad7552385eb3470b3ec7414fb3eca45c8b77861234e57fb003c61de281
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicates a malicious intent to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or redirection lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/fafipokafebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4debdd74ff6f2f77166302b294d4eff/60289771887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents/files/39075000544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/26548554276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziva-muzika.cz/files/file/88280809882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89vcmlo2up94sa44n6cem2lriu/vuxarizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/55098615793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/30444650273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/xuzedikupafilexomezasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/19034258310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149ff7877f9e---85519424479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147981f8fc60---jonirugigorixuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincodehub.in/userfiles/file/93571959715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/togigisitufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/11906050516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22316141921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/gememixozadugugirofidiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/19917737838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/21270516979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibeauty.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68599164530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93590997085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/10564947285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/96803970282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnow.jp/js/upload/files/61772596435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/20219241251214919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goopenapp.com/uploads/files/fezulipimarapoxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/55686530260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=youtube+apps+newPDF 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_off0000b756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB756 16872 bytes
SHA-256: e88ee815954d38655d350e77c2b97912061710a4c526fe4109585f8001f64689
font_01_sfnt_off0000e23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA51 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 62c1f4ab4c2293c7038a79a64ce390498b0b255eb9d161a7a8ca04aa5fc68e19