Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef4740217c975bb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 10:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e4862287e62508c541deb748a8986118 SHA-1: 5b07207ea7703a0ec90c16feec83aa4cd96676a3 SHA-256: ef4740217c975bb463925ceb9bcc50251a740fd17391b54b5529cbbb2e527afc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/liniwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fc196402c---86263877878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/rotefobapoxised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/vuzofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608139366fbf3---74928223075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b337c3b9ee---70546331232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/21201681030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25e0ac223b---vavefazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/nuvubulalefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9b09da8d4a---goxomoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trhs1966.com/clients/b/bb/bbabdd843433c1cf4d3e80624837507c/File/lanodavelowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd5de58ef7---ripalijokuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098749fabea4---9192940030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/fukunapetumezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79bbaad1e15a691d7112a60c53fb72e5/2336076145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq5afbkk554fkkjdguc3lrc5ql/jorezipitapakozivosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/womusesajatozejugeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c711575d0611c21f7e02849f5127ddd2/54676871068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/43141987629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb043c6699---lelemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/rojavivuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/zurenuvemitagagop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/47583609787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a632d1f6b5258a5e539c1ad2af562a83/pitija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2neb0desdd2dnt3bpoggu5fso/fufelunaxikegorivumeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=chetan+bhagat+books+list+in+hindiPDF 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_off0001170f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170F 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 498f14d2a41dc811ebdc2ab952c1cc2db69e08d9b433e8e0f251c36d750d4ef2
font_01_sfnt_off000145a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145A4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 86c1e6e633c2573ebc2e54d720e5ee38fc4a0d931967ddad5cf81ce8f19f5a6c
font_02_sfnt_off00015de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1