Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eed821b7a29a3e08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cd2db045da324c937fd4c8fcfc19aecc SHA-1: a1e58178f536df5c8bce8bd3dfc4628d06e2445b SHA-256: eed821b7a29a3e0889a34ddcf39ce680bd53e4033aad62bc7ba33c25e1d3f29f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to obscure its malicious intent rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/sogefewoxabipiwete.pdf
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edp2ol6r6875fj607243tvcfu4/pedafejan.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a680e88a491---wifokatogufobe.pdf
    • http://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/zenadaxujitenoxapazu.pdf
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eebcf9b4d522632f78d1729e8d5ef2c2/98946219328.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmik0p6rd6p06t8abrvrgvukb5/47746214280.pdf
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/zaganibuzebeloredezupapob.pdf
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48232868101.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6ede0af73---vexurerokasipixosux.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f513022761---2515409906.pdf
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210531181934.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a406b73569---wajeduromovu.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0519b4e92d46fff829cc825a40e5c85/lakiful.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb1faef092---61154397549.pdf
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/84164841537.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec313c6668---fujosunetipe.pdf
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/pevutolunipug.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7c9a1da91---nukefumalipomejozajij.pdf
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210710_FEA77264282A000F.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b6e01045c---zebedibed.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8j0cefasnqg19tq24aqo9e34i7/nitetixidawejezus.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/62329562686.pdf
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/xedif.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f73c77536b---87448919790.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+savory+crepes
    • 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_off0001036c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b83.bin
9206321d260bb5bda6fac0e5ab064f59c1c5d25819f092e02a20775d1bf371a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B83 10356 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001332b.bin
78c0dd9c1973f35c3a1c1a969880fae3e18d6c670a8dc9358fde24e08520d395
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1332B 18000 bytes