Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5efac0cda5d93453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-15 16:15:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7a5cbbfece9235e7d18a196fc1772e06 SHA-1: f35151a53977aa5b9a726bb05f28900fcb0d4066 SHA-256: 5efac0cda5d9345384ecc7ebdf48e95b849ac7a5c220877d1a41b97257195ee9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. An embedded JavaScript stream was also detected, which could be used to further obfuscate the malicious intent or initiate a download. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadizavegowatefinosaka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0ptuaav1i1acc77aja7rg024f/minizakezojikanaxuzogowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/mimevitapugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/78292320089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089793c4ce5f---86216067473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibdqcf8abvm6urann5ktgqp44r/45216795440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/kaxebazezadazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607248a68b13b---figafarejalubojofisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/wanigigubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/fizemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118acfcb282f---71668921377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiguroxalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b107c54f401ca78d3750c79cfda2ab82/78146308861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff86e3c54d1a15a10b95fa379c2982b9/41230704657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78384586265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78625562248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/patapebokezetobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrkd869g6g6ocvu6fp2ffl8is2/72851808500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f1f2cd40d0994261a067436536a92b/76565950432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/ribeseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d80e85cc6f0---27970578367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifudaribovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=aws+behavioral+interview+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/purip.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_off0000f4bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BC 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 89e1d3cc838dbfc76634bad07adcbaa7252878c09087a6386badb94f5edae3bf
font_01_sfnt_off0001209b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B2 11112 bytes
SHA-256: c1dfbc79138c4096b7fe75256bd3c2990eb8dc032bcd544eec0ae66b416a319a