Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eedf74a706682cfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-10-03 07:17:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6e09c10c978dbca08f932324e3ae1715 SHA-1: e91974e7b40aab95593f8dd5322f45156dd7c4b4 SHA-256: eedf74a706682cfa0b7994c13119d765daa29d89ea134df354879b7e2897954e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to external domains that appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external links suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145990d8a95b---kukuwutetarelexepobitesig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/33588836978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/31436689236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615928d715bc6---risavowubaguxasadavavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/41441858081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///noxipobuwexidapebufifodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2555534137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starfoil-mail.nl/uploads/wysiwyg/9367110675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/nejanixiwibaguteninad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lademox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/piwogaxadogalovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b78a5ac3cd447a9b90afa2e0537d51/movosabuguliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///goposisegewufagolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/77238448751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153d53cd13ee---52351030521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/masul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3vm9109ff3fq0tehpfvoclo46/zupututexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azs-szermierka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/norotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/29661159192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhbfv3r5ap9qbrpgc63tqs1ge2/65447737472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/vudisofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109240518543428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///wapawejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=copy+cda+files+from+cd+to+pcPDF 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_off0000c296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC296 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAD 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 46a2da62c5d031ab8ab97c6e19e24341c66b54dc05fde8e0996f6153410992ee
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AB 19860 bytes
SHA-256: 8f658d8e33d0f2b9739eca30b9db300cd91f4c190ae4208d91e7fd10a30c992d