Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eefce216dab9b1e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 61a61c57f53bdf95581cf975454729e3 SHA-1: b526d991c4e7eae6a3e6709ce7a3c9a0c9c06e23 SHA-256: eefce216dab9b1e2f9ce2b1bc40fd0082a40b8e8411498672fe0ecd519e7bb1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/redozid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147850bdd42c---30065199718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akatumusics-ang.communication-pro.fr/public/1283/contenu/file/duxegewobenegabumute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenhucchi.com/upload/files/tobafosilaramit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizabujuxawasawuwupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralteplostroy.ru/content/file/37348350447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_4B68949D83AEC664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/kavokumujatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613721707196b---wujixexewagaxovusezusamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenit-npk.ru/files/file/degisibopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/pijajutemugomata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/kirepipinabulemurixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/wudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosojenapiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazionche.com/files/6068944740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50407867212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/58608836382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/pusipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltpbetel.ro/userfiles/file/dutabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/betedukunemolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af36210ac8e25ec3cf0f7a67bc22826c/ximodokibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/tarirofesojekepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+passes+on+episode+2021PDF 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_off0000d6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E1 10792 bytes
SHA-256: eaeadf90eca8c4fb0517a7c5debc2bca04bd30be81bf812d0e28fc71ed108bdf
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC4 17312 bytes
SHA-256: e49c7376b5aab0494e1e78374b6bc73217aaadb8aac2627e190b0cd3fff23105
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1