Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef34d32386a55fd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:50:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 52e55ed50ec84d3071a0bc2c023c0e3a SHA-1: 14f07c02e5de5a15a0de0d2410615bbfbe22e216 SHA-256: ef34d32386a55fd7d6211b6e1085bd4341a66f133cddd82808149272dc9c5d74
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xipimeliwamenov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malixutojimevipuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/24758651608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c820cae2---65097144444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaalu.com/luutru/files/nesaruxobebajujidosurazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chornakorn-packing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusebapozupomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/zefufapanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1016fj76ncj0aed2bldi1tv4sl/10948209901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69997100965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/sofetukupatoguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610961e0bb56b---pasebebuwovuzovebixebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c512b82a85f---37044071291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/lezanoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/nisukadedovolivebexalinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/zezuwoxadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079efc13692b---18293726073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b6e5ac074---41400890204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/kabewawemumotosaladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/35304840270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/16438398658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84v81h5jj2e3mgvp588a7gjl1c/xupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/14159771629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg00s82d916srtsinpertp7oe4/josoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/73140561232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d71196fc6---64573084694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=benq+ms550+projector+specification+pdfPDF 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_off0000d1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1FC 18616 bytes
SHA-256: e13a62b0d7c8002b098194021d89f3fbc608ee557bbf63de26a0d401e8842b16
font_01_sfnt_off000102c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADC 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 56b64cc69ab2a45d3557ee429f7496f7e05ddfc044bca3c387a2354b12b0b229