Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef193e27adb6983f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:19:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9e20a5f99864c0c4badb97a988f74113 SHA-1: 328237cb56fa13d775dbaefe4ebb37b5795df54e SHA-256: ef193e27adb6983fc128269f8876d1fb860440926479558ca3d45186fe904c90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5aae4e915---nesebanejunisawavuluboxid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/zimizena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/88168707095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1nkb29h21n8mavdpqe46uvepr/gozanugebubunoposax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a72050a1e---gijojowewanewujiboput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho2auvml1alld7p6fbj04dqnj3/wodenoxipuguxolubaxibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/42757448990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/riwabomukiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/94234062757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/zugupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/79635390891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902133ecc5d---55690557107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odontologosmalca.com/images/userfiles/file/82302091821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8eefbae7f5---padukenuzewexarodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfc60820846---73922676463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1a69ab1fa21a7e5899d942c75d98983/raxerowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80122d6a4d4be7eae7db25eb8e45347e/neleromanofajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zolunoxelowirefutaxaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb77457c293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/numuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/lalupebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/mumuferatonazogeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=instalar+impressora+pdf+freePDF 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_off00017656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17656 20644 bytes
SHA-256: 9f564fbe73140b9cefc738303e2a5d647f3d70ad2a3225087231914e5d491461
font_01_sfnt_off0001ac6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AC6D 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 8d327862b63de30b18dce097ff82a2637ff9580be3c82b68135dcf7ac71de3fb
font_02_sfnt_off0001c4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C4A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1