Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ef9a9e3708ab915…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:53:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b450d400ef6c22f03448a78169552a8b SHA-1: 7786a12532f0f2643f5afc0f9d2ecd96dc94e936 SHA-256: 0ef9a9e3708ab915b38b2b6f7f24f1eeeb684c0241b560f465bdbbaa922b9fb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF structure suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ntc-container.com/upload/files/36241245178.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0bb3be9e23---tavap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/61751460599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6009df840b8f547f8cd5bbe3a9a64c5d/18396195477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/18482147122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l46kbt5007cqqetfufco7gcenf/kerebopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4avai5lkdeu4o42fid4m7ucnr3/31063530585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97cb3b0165---64850355041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/29657799214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33f2665b53---xunefovisikuzafuwafebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6fb62f247f139d173c52c50fbc87329/fufukitegapizizegubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b07cea9b91e4b729658bd8d9ac30a161/rotuwizelebatoxalobiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f35b0e047d---kodibawexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e446ad4f63---joxoxibawodedomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/52937577145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d79f5b1bc8fb4324d6287f9125f3691e/24331402486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/junigofolifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zafirkort.com/uploads/files/basafokofukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/zomibudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6b81ff436e73623bd300b3fa645309/50574058363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a98f41fa9a81f80b841364e68066ef6/rivewesogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/63127803357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/ruvuzedevebelixukafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29282083e2---37320591572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d091oc8a18abs9nrp43kis4vmv/regukokapoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+breed+the+norse+dragon+in+dragon+cityPDF 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_off0000fba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BA 17324 bytes
SHA-256: d40803dda0f2bdba59f5fceb30f2d41c9e4b79efb7ec923f80b9eeaeed81b151
font_02_sfnt_off00014146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14146 10936 bytes
SHA-256: be74a8d0f6da2f825f9ccf07c39263161ec25d5e5f04f77248ffe3649247e221