Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eef613b1278a3841…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 10:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 674a679cbc3caaa7bec14683006b0f6d SHA-1: 78ca7533f45ba081a185934f86868b703f37b9e4 SHA-256: eef613b1278a3841ac04b2fbcf03cd6b92f4827210d6ef95f166df8f49a01aa5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs hosted on compromised sites is a significant indicator of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613398eae7b83---fixom.pdf
    • http://uzks.hr/upload/datoteke/rilafemafexedusefar.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa9b984fdff51c5b5adeb8e3c94f738/54192218030.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecd3807dbe---78416600683.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15fbd0d68bd160b3cc9762ba27e23b8/piwitupowipizeleji.pdf
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/fudipiw.pdf
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/12408853269.pdf
    • https://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/xiwar.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/38450032090.pdf
    • https://temahr.hr/files/81243216783.pdf
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/71050922882.pdf
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/43987252353.pdf
    • http://ashole.hu/UserFiles/File/kirekefubiketegaxile.pdf
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/lewiwusanitowifiwox.pdf
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/rofukinomupijotilikexus.pdf
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/nisokekuveduxirerobozapi.pdf
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/21764015295.pdf
    • http://vinaaquachem.com/uploads/files/zekogitu.pdf
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/vifipopenof.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615049e1271b2---zanogakarugo.pdf
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/xurolizutusuwidebis.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4o35i7koborsnjj670ov7tpsm/gadaxi.pdf
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210918214837283.pdf
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/50495899363.pdf
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/81724997373.pdf
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/27483103307.pdf
    • https://centrumschoolka.pl/photos/file/tuzowapozomuvoxowon.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=blackfish+documentary+watch+online
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba3b.bin
69bb1eb73b680e1c7d025c45b10527fa3167464fb4114694819dad7d7b8869fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA3B 11184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d454.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD454 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec66.bin
5a04d43f89dce13879be5115f799921d6b11b6b69a9552f63e415db8e3e85565
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC66 17648 bytes