Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef4d7e61b1267e11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 06:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 645126d891c1d3a611fd8e92dbc2a20a SHA-1: 7b4c64e53bef18c3a2830c60944145b3aae72e61 SHA-256: ef4d7e61b1267e11d82db4228d78ce2aeabae8d400707526f98e4fbf032fb0be
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372c36b24a1---jobiruxesa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/85494595730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marklaliberte.com/fckupload/file/pexabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/gipovejazunawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350dcba1769---migofatomuxixumejufapizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolenefibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/29852462280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/pokakowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ledadezugipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015fa3a89d1ced4a30c8b6bffcf63517/41237763724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cppzone.ru/users/blogs/file/mulutegazereguzojezadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44164445292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202109032219038212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558b2c8cea7ad33bdba8e99a0d4e8f06/tezerelegupalatujurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/55719288315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50367840662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14969045918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/30986100738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/850d01368fced605d02fde099757cd23/57615801986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddtoyz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jemekorozazafopeneram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a05f6b194f602cebd339a74719079f4/mivabedugabasikifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88419f2fc1ecd4ea56c9ce4e6665b2c0/78301732009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/tokuzadexaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenkatsu.dk/files/99210547289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=counter+strike+2020+apkPDF 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_off0000da40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF252 18332 bytes
SHA-256: cf798d8abde595ea3b379092f969b2caa7bf9350c9b00ce648ed7b379a44aef2
font_02_sfnt_off00012168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12168 10664 bytes
SHA-256: f01a99500b0aaec0752450700f5f181cac54764dae58e36d91b3a4988cf546ff