Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef1fedae1740a008…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 701114ecdaebccc4fb23fbbd4eb8d39a SHA-1: 275fb6573aac8b003957330a94b67c61157d39d0 SHA-256: ef1fedae1740a008242337aa3580868db5da09525fda39421506be8913b93827
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to lure users into phishing or downloading further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+compare+and+contrast+essay PDF link annotation
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9a8ee65423683514920d32666d2b952/kozorokibukexipilolujex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1bd4e6872---64777005155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10118794789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803b27e4b37---83486588293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607689d61bc2b---49037616410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/lafifeset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba31d991dd6---89282269607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/48739671315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2048b6b0d41af09cf6fd265850b42dca/wixififumisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/netezizefawovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b209dea65---57551878166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul6bjhelbbt9thg97jaq07pg86/kadutewatigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bungefamily.com/clients/5233/File/42845566357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/32759468401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a373f674998---vabetuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/lebovojimagegepoveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/59187673728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d82c2784c---29036192644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7be88a65c---loloberopijofowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/wofexiwomazukewonomad.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11201 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A13 16840 bytes
SHA-256: ac07fbe7fab704d1054ec37bf51d965af8cc10a343c3c8298e4f489aa551f6ec
font_02_sfnt_off00015580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15580 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 5dbe316d4ac49d1ad74cea2baa23a31a4af42ec78e403e3fdf19d968543305e6

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