Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ef2ccdb6434dc90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 01:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 53a9615c9ed187eb159bb14d6918d510 SHA-1: 7f6d088a0ade4c443c16861b8294873a4a9866b0 SHA-256: 0ef2ccdb6434dc90f314ea7e3598150e3fecee6cf06f2157db8df078f57512ca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript, indicating it likely attempts to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. Several heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, with many URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://tantos.jp/js/upload/files/banaxokogexuvaze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/ninovetekizabefiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392b053c73d---fuwalamedamifowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/notum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdfneq4kgg71alndbjngd3rc52/roluvoxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/fowunufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_2DD50E6DC67823D4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613422ef86fa8---24116918896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/dodulevebalogonurizobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/44661679806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/jejipidatufuwaziwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/zoxufutoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57e067170eebd3ab91ca42b4da4ceb24/63923167535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/16351882350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/82232216918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalsport.no/userfiles/file/87517206712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/91317007452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/ligotoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/42276968933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9447451189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361fc67283a---27385248020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njxinbell.com/upload/files/81181327018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95967339569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdsliquorlocker.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wowima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/xalugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=android+accessibility+shortcutPDF 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_off0000be55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE55 10804 bytes
SHA-256: fe7c8c1c3a36d492ef36938d6ba91f379d8a4a3bf912985424a671d7217d0426
font_01_sfnt_off0000d733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD733 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 309aed0b4363a513ade50fc3cfabb49a02f9b44e0af4fbaf11ca0dc3f9d94223
font_02_sfnt_off000103c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1