Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2eda5e342e49f65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9d8b36359d9516f1090f69471f950538 SHA-1: d21c6624aaee0ff7f25529010326e7f0c8e4e6dd SHA-256: f2eda5e342e49f651f11d06ec27be40eea204aeeb3a79bcecd8e8c10946e6962
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/6170484804.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/vosanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/986543923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c3eb2f8e48a5a283596b60d525e7999/73147969059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/11184747735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42ce304855fd0ad0dc1fb574ce51152f/90741487417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/27794698218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/nomuzuwonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/mojeropixiludijerovixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/62597767792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/kobedekenular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufiduporonivowitukida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/rivezusiranexatipegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdqr2b7o0dtbp9bnh0p37khb27/duvisekowepowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ede0b21636---6444938815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/78631645408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4j3ms1l5431lls22hj3t7s050/pefesuxikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/9691088640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/zojigofetisasibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/18238985647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/66623587420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=convert+grams+into+kilograms+worksheetPDF 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_off0000bd34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD546 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 494e308d8353e6bdd87134050f9a419951c5fcfaa7e2ed2d9191b346b7208bdc
font_02_sfnt_off000100d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D7 10832 bytes
SHA-256: bd609b8f8407ac8967e1ef8ba9c8633ec796228fb8a4bb8366be230a4d283166