Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef48701e7debcc38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 17:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2eff8847a34caaa7bc9476a1ec342b9d SHA-1: be8867c4d85df039a679588d301bc4957d3932da SHA-256: ef48701e7debcc380bd287cae0cf104535d90beae99d30ca9255a5c52e7bb037
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to infer a malicious link-farming scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17e44243ef96994c9e9111564c29be6/naliziribawada.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/242746cdc179979a559bb18e7d297f89/wironosegurobunuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b58466ddf---71550308295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/filopefumido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/leposumoxuxilupasanomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemonbg.com/Files/File/18641007785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/3848951949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110a59c99633---72200048369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aedfe14a9a0a837d099ce9584481e39/61611619727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/fakeruvovowavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/2396504201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b7b7ca701---pagavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cc9edca9b---19233371108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e2c13bca8b---51464356815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se8q7iqeirbmsmaud2bqlb5lqp/dexagepagedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/sozukuvefudaponuzife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/38346476590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021072319302973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/sakatilipurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2268299525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfdbc90456---kozoxozinizofogimijarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn0ec7mhj4e1clfjgb42deopu4/daxabalofazepimazuxijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/daliruginirufuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ad6d19ad2---sarufikowinobazuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/vebezibexutose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/geguvisakuwemiruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=great+thoughts+on+friendship+in+marathiPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD90 11040 bytes
SHA-256: d184ced3ebe7db2099f855aaf2508b3c4d6eda45e37f10e9a87d59e25cda7ecc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd8a120e106fc2d4fc1855603a636a3ce922decfb1b4d98f17a4a5450337c58
font_02_sfnt_off00010cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000124f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F0 19440 bytes
SHA-256: aa8002554d649e415a23e0d5089c8ad0476686211a627fa76afe8545f4a5c7ef