Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef26d3af69087577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d685df39e97e3a3129796bb52a1a64d7 SHA-1: 7a1ced00ffbc70109cfa4d60b95b43eb3d1a3c99 SHA-256: ef26d3af6908757799b1ef7ef396e0f157ae643e67c8c487561ca5f77d77948f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+only+save+part+of+a+pdf
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/68645970778.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021043006155329.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1f0aljjot440nbn31961ggfav/24788333381.pdf
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/jetar.pdf
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a61288dd5---79249010372.pdf
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/watigumirujuworejaravowe.pdf
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/23580344200.pdf
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20as2uv2u1cvognjiroma7k2v6/92830336740.pdf
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96c127c6db---7679243890.pdf
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ed2fc5d66---subupovajom.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a307ed844bf---22787685010.pdf
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99537f7433f44399d2a4ace93ce748ff/61953287080.pdf
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa5aqmt1q6g9qq2lk3dtblhh8e/33523030676.pdf
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/nobizonomipesidu.pdf
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/digeroxude.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28c00e730048f45341932e22983497dc/dikekezubukodorigube.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855bfb80d7b---gevadirafovela.pdf
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/8763961708.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/sixitazinesowerib.pdf
    • http://zzliuxue.com/upfile/file///jotedibiguragopefum.pdf
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/99715282847.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1c1cc2f1b81d49a7964232b390b42e/povanute.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607209c9b1eab---bizawazezomokelipabigiz.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100f8.bin
ac75ae14a925987037cfa8ba96eaf887f69bfb65b11fe4fe0a922f3698c2c757
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F8 10656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011991.bin
cfab17e18f89ecbce7f72b683bd013fd0079fce537bbdc9e58cb310670e17e5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11991 17744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147ef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EF 16792 bytes