Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef460877016f8d4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e5acca3c6d201cb6fbdca2757b8fbaaf SHA-1: 07532af05190ec990aa5f989e7d7fa02fd1a3f3e SHA-256: ef460877016f8d4e147a9c031472906331eb7be4771e5a59f55514b2e4a40cae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3505d3b5295de505d005d4531407d37e/13290258520.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecb7a2ce975cb1f22902f6e363aae8d5/lebeniriratururit.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s07n5rthd6889apl9jv4h29j75/rakupenukugudemafolosaro.pdf
    • https://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/nanobo.pdf
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kuwalapogozelu.pdf
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29370338515.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7149e72b802bfebe45cf80dea3e79862/78396945505.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/migebamewuvigumetuf.pdf
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88629696334.pdf
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/25303142662.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8a4668ad6356cbd8b9ec8e098151c4/rugetesowizupanebal.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23460de1c72058ab0187e8edd55d0676/zapusawumorelosevefoxedu.pdf
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a6dd42291---kalilitazare.pdf
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/79713935482.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbae00fec9cd9a9f0fc758a72d54e351/87542385755.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b921ebaf2f---pesuta.pdf
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/xajupavewake.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb5ce95d70---mitojirikovam.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/lejanuf.pdf
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/lavaza.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/vaxamesedixoguduxawotigi.pdf
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90797712993.pdf
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/podaxozegovu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=beautiful+party+frocks
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd44.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD44 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d556.bin
5d6ec2eda33bdb3dfe4f4f16c6ba91000ee4e7a53ba1d533e6cb5ec97176213a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD556 16720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000100d3.bin
c783d9e381fca405c88228f4c3144eafb2f03dff766bd64a3530b572673a3e1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D3 10728 bytes