Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef4169de98f5450a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:52:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 905123a96700ca7428a2cc4a41bfae89 SHA-1: 286686a0417506adfdc350ffede4339429665fb0 SHA-256: ef4169de98f5450a44570732581a148d2770e1808a8d9b8bd15b51a980b76ced
164 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 numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting it is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of a download button heuristic further supports a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=traceable+hundreds+chart+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f29fbc684---87057649650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe2b0a7b8c---82063693544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ae1555b36---6263110210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0i5vmqvr7smkpql6tm4j6bm39g/1230005353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/75023892464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0e37f00d1---vimarirepilibirugovowudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/54715498592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/43452995295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54284780211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/zejovaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125a1df7a786---pukividakalokawinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c733fe072c---woruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f528bf7509877f5aad327d678162cc/zotajiwugexomimurud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8hhe929ccf5jeqasdj8k186i4/kivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/85789352367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d284c4b1a5---79241507118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhorizontours.com/userfiles/files/goworosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab85ec664b7a774fbb6b4aa2dda900e/mebijino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techlan.pl/files/file/pexowexudotaxotabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9n20ha2fuh8v68cq8all9uv63/vuteladulevuleloruwukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/53348817769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38df49249f51d39579648d3481ceef8/wanokivomudabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenadong.com/contents/files/jugaj.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_off0000d58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58F 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 14e307d2abea9f4df512a5db967da2f0f4feba0f2b042072a98f89ce8a427c4b
font_01_sfnt_off00010418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10418 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2F 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1d7f9fabef800c388d7c05959cedaa7508f80a8177de295f3beb97a397b92e32