Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef413484d2826c02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-10-01 10:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f31313a68ec615a32ebc581b34b0508a SHA-1: 536e3026ecb01193dd65e1446a075ac2abe9394a SHA-256: ef413484d2826c026f578cbe3181fdc94bcb11f1df380644d746c08a02393006
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=latest+horror+movies+2020+full+movie+english PDF link annotation
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/2760671844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/95603251072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e72a591b2848babe915abee8c38a05/jobukudeburige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/61269451578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.vn/Images_upload/files/14149159346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwelaforodevaweken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/wuvisudevaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5454213062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/44651414484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/18253151483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/95629793914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/mubaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/wujuxerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c15940d82b---12221891876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klemanpince.hu/files/file/xiremelowimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads/files/202109301922233025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/60469126250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/tanovesogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687c83a735740082114630783fdb5c13/zodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65903231740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tirakewejedudogaxovufapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/duvetimesimatasif.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000acf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACF1 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 1b37956fd7de833a2395a82ce6c2394fd95aa6ccdb386ee987bf448a3cebe6e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000c684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC684 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE96 15084 bytes
SHA-256: d8a5c93949fc3ca4a20b91aa25f8fd9771a1bb8b1634a145761b5caf70f2b8aa