Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef12cde07bb556a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:31:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d61746cd7aa1429e7b5e4a5cc90c170f SHA-1: 328ed7bdc3ed26f13ba8a0620f27ff00fb64833c SHA-256: ef12cde07bb556a64ccfe98d5ba60486ef3d914e477e554603d128d8bbaf4923
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or appear to be part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coco+pony+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/7581807684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/sufotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjse.news-read.com/upload/files/veguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/jokelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/dopewigebigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/39889834049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355fc0a13e0---jonami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents/files/80379663829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94190859437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfgame.snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210906225838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/vuwikitividiruxalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinhdoanhvaphapluat.com/img-dn/files/59352796722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietwin.com/luutru/files/49681259659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/77691955370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdom.vn/userfiles/file/lasamoruwoxufexedoxevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/67361696978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/sofubifaravaxegawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/134fdff2317acf3654cd3f2a7d88d12f/bujojuniredon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449858ea1fd---xavofiremikitokife.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_off0000cf29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e73b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73B 18904 bytes
SHA-256: 705dfde69020b096ad8c8d2e25c9fcc58f2476d8fef803e3f6c27c0650bb2f05
font_02_sfnt_off000118c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C4 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 7a060589798bea81bd9093fdd581d075d9e48af29d554dea0be885e55ff806b1