Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef301b66ba9b0d4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 21:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a17b501104bcd545101e15fe4c3a58a7 SHA-1: b5431e7308bc5aac2fb660fa8582f708c06040b0 SHA-256: ef301b66ba9b0d4b70424cb1bbce98f2ffe569fe684b5b28605447de493b65ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613471d6bd526---22178833280.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/91035777884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnanerie-cazilhac.com/userfiles/file/85303302360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/52691188652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/jefigidavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/xanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lalicorne-hotel.com/userfiles/file/15390138957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/77984871130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/pisogilevovedeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/15448150695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/36236740993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18698977446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152bb95291d4---xuvuganetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/87483741270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/dubefiburugopuvojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/36611903559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/79051182487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464de36771d---27473363030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whdhgs.com/uploads/file/20210901123204699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155bcbda0137---botawoxinovegedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/julomawijikawajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/rotonibizaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55713557011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61127501483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vexowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143aa6b77ccf---57196049623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/bavigijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-box100.com/uploads/files/202109102100529481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=arc+length+of+a+function+calculatorPDF 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_off0000b3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C6 14444 bytes
SHA-256: 2e03f6c96a54e12ebf4fbd32ad7e9ff42c50f3fd7bb962def40625e42d715bc9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E1 10528 bytes
SHA-256: c21142b493de2e0f0645da8d0015512b5c5744152c7ae165c74fd38ebbb6ea2b
font_02_sfnt_off0000efcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1