Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1eddd94bc436afd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 03:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2e28cea537bcd0aba7720045e3997045 SHA-1: 61819f0673f6985d310e4f88bfb45852283afcfa SHA-256: f1eddd94bc436afda47f8fda365f5f093f826a357cf621dd2445aee40abdf35c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+eat+for+breakfast+on+no+carb+no+sugar+diet PDF link annotation
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecb65b03b84---28439765599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53522743119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbb6be19f8---67986422695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelisupusupulubunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dfac9408a---taxobepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/lisomowavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/34564635880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39683335784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/sisugexujoxaxosakefowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/xetuwigefixubujuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd599564a4---dalopobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/tirixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/luweteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/49832963857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/kutakuxavafoviwijulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609888cd5cd0c---46705124236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nk4dnga7h3q3omr38vs5kf1j2/vesiwinowawokiwexuwegize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iii4qehpehi1bh31hfb1vnu1n4/lidusagozamukafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5qb0ip4diolj74cofisarhsqm/jobujelirusarepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087df30c1cc1---zazovarademafoparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/84415010260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdad18df2e---42172897453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/heuqb485p60sj2lt3pfeeqk4g8/bajagusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10067 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 7784479d76889ff72f2e504851b61256ac23b69a708d607a64123fc7cddd964f
font_01_sfnt_off00012e36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001464d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1464D 11032 bytes
SHA-256: c57fe5f7879130d3357a80ed5e6b332ebdd93798367e850920b173c72a8ef2be