Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef2d3d09d7ddfe56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 00:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6dfa0d02b48f990966eff5bc76257971 SHA-1: a0d36a7c4b434109949e7ba28632ce896483ef43 SHA-256: ef2d3d09d7ddfe5639151fdf0b8e1c8219dbebbe7bf9d8fea9bcb5e0161404de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable link farms. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious redirection or download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://temple.mo/userfiles/file/jagurevivoxif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/jafetufutibegutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenonisodegizowuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/sipidebisolimofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1a9a79e7e---malarexegerokiwaxepoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/75794264083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/41169624926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784f805670---palarozagitimovofiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/14055307296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5196becb5---4885902991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5a74c14c7---mugumetixolizokivivati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/81508389638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43f1411004---34365908535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/xoguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/tupowonafugemalozufizuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/35600375755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e31fdef2bc---32201095540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b8ef24d2d---zajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70975714da1132a8f7898602654a3c77/nuremelamazatumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+yellow+garden+snakePDF 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_off0000efc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC2 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 1b8d918811f9a73b8c62b14851624198428532c14e1e3736f2210aa94cfb0e14
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA5 10700 bytes
SHA-256: c40717e5c3de9b03a374eaddfb6bd3292dd84d5e1ea79b819b7f7d777668a53a
font_02_sfnt_off0001353f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1353F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1