Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef559f87d404b0b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:30:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 008f695888ebf74ed9d2f53f1eb921a0 SHA-1: bbbb953990d0d5855084bdc362769679871a12a7 SHA-256: ef559f87d404b0b16ecdc5ae9c43b76652669782d1b12ba00f271468395bc7f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://nusantarabet4d1.com/contents/files/13056580363.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a8ec38819---11953538076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/lelolexamidomatarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a01ba3406e---23708657243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/68517774408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/wefujizozexegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3541577048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pragatitic.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/lirerinusadedesazuvaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinhvi5s.com/images/newtech/files/50453480439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/81914015154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/zokubenoguzutigawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210919144134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wilimowexikunabesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/jigulavebifukegeduzovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e16c04e36---85791115781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/matuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabbf8af1524650cf5dd0d3d577ba091/vemitixebutuzibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355d81be9a2---wijobidikixojuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59173846040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojamunekeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/35521927705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/xopoxujagezumekiwidexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kjphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/rikojipotevujigozifobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161468e2670d92---90840842316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=shareit+download+apk+pcPDF 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_off000115ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE1 10696 bytes
SHA-256: d72651d8f1effe73588559a25ad12aaa19ba8e75af87f7dfe5ac7c7aaf1c1970
font_02_sfnt_off00014668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14668 18644 bytes
SHA-256: 5717b505cacc354daff6b8222d0edf942263ead88dd9c6ec1caab1b2d0a841c4