Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3efedcf5d233ef43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 14:42:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 12a9605b43635ff40156d26b69a80461 SHA-1: 144d5d9e5dd2006ed9f688569a2111d493610f0c SHA-256: 3efedcf5d233ef433ed82e3af69c51f775d9048674630cc388cccde11cd3daef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, as malicious and likely phishing-related. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://builderall.info/userfiles/file/lulisejo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/verosilomanoxadaxukujewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/woxekokelenomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5fdf79e60---sazipuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089218410de1---dipajazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/2604181811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c2b90b67d---silofaxetupugiloxexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/472d2a18382c23691ee08415bb29b33d/fopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fe84c54f42140367d8d2a2534a1d6e6/gukisexesowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee43152b4e---61370028485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650b62c64dd4714b624936bf043e802c/7345350438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd181d562e---vedegakidexijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e0295375434ec8304b70994ccbae6c/wupesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/16990991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/6024546638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/83750432751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/20854557338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotween.com/userfiles/file///27856709211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2605625525---47336388988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e72df67052---30968815136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607542d64af2d---pumelonuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/29087628537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvb1brs74495i757qabduq0tmj/sevenetumewesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=locks+safes+and+security+pdfPDF 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_off0000e909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE909 10832 bytes
SHA-256: bff30b510472b07ed12fb6cfb21f081050b83fa533ba436d496327f8a561be1b
font_01_sfnt_off00010235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10235 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A47 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 9daa3e42391534f8486d24b97e39ef286a406ef0fcd8517a8472299e086027d0