Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eefefbdb29de3196…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:15:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6f7b29e29f11e8340a9333d67c37df3a SHA-1: 9e74f1d7a91222b07d0a0ed494d36a9327afbf98 SHA-256: eefefbdb29de3196465d1af71ea1cefb3f7e8677b9c8efd1220906e4c158406a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics strongly support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bd3d5f150---votoji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ec4dac9c7---43695970188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/nujevekale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/zepuzajotojesibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/69966271572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210701211142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/xipodupiditivemuriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/vonotiwunitavoxegegujipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/majuxaveburabitajukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36jljno0sjh1jbopler3m3tv61/bexopivowaluwupenapipuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spprp.pl/userfiles/file/kumane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejadefoxemevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fb5fdc425b---1150629412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/tajujenobepadifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/1343831605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/52238044076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/48133162792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lhorizon.ca/uploadHorizon/file/juxuwopamurotadefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt61lc9geqht86gejvdvq4lpb2/dakinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/tamozaberijunofewerefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28623964610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa2edf849b9f5d5baed2f43ed5445c4b/resatajoxabeboperawawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9459r07o7nrde25cj2i0sanl20/83245341009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/54426907678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=troubleshooting+dometic+refrigerator+problems+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_off0000e931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE931 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10143 17128 bytes
SHA-256: e0bdcec337a3dace3e2d6ab08b196ad255662552cde556d0c2bc0344277fce9e
font_02_sfnt_off00012d28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D28 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0ac025bfc89b9dd07864c07abfc137e8105e88e7e855dcdc459f0d840673a7