Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef551332c78f2f1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 17:07:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 4031a0c502c08db69844aace01d6f94c SHA-1: fcaae3545cba0755361a093b090ca7a933eb4d7e SHA-256: ef551332c78f2f1ed2294a4d84a0a29980775bebc58443208054fdc889563d4f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2891eecb4b488f6631ca59714a920f9/26303146267.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/9804413397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210723_BE0A51A622754EAD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/89573351508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a035690ebc9---revegetuniwubilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/87434376731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161096ce7e1236---68824278071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161061d55908cb---fizopagenafawisudotirafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8psv6818eh7nqgmhq6hqdkjaje/wubowabepupisoxisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2cef4b9f9fbb72cd863f9907510278/19474225533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f14ac3fed---jiturojegeturaxebufalawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/waxoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/89342934039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/52363411425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/betawofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/12046432194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/lujuratitavibitiliradiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/9599449538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/37550470589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5484954fe8---wugadisodumuvufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/nadatimisababovuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/nigurefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf64e78dab---kavejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/fatejamuwegilovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=terraria+ps4+all+items+map+download+2020PDF 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_off0000ef4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4F 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9f2116c7e491cca031ddbc8a748473f269e55f342200902b53939c77fc77adfa
font_01_sfnt_off000108a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A9 16120 bytes
SHA-256: e067633ba73379d5c70440156773c5245e3d9b5f9704055a24c6fbd733dc52ed
font_02_sfnt_off00011df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF9 18404 bytes
SHA-256: 172fabbb1896e5f149c7a58320bb17ac27cf74200cff70a758d7542d569b1e3a
font_03_sfnt_off00014f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1