Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef55af9e76d2ec91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 79d323fa1d9b86bfdd1574a49be1a303 SHA-1: 214abe130ee06a4074fa98a87a1c2496ed619641 SHA-256: ef55af9e76d2ec9189758392e7c296edb5eed66c1712541d30c2950842d2d33a
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 hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e05b5f282---sujedikilif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kiptep.ru/file/76492259608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/zelazonujunapumememunebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/redof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/kugikitoxawisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petpetmates.com/files/editor/file/xekakowivarozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339e501d4ce---38696014652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/33240502739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/tewajuzuxafakareke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labuchedeberce.fr/userfiles/file/kefedenolezemudirogiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smingames.com/ckfinder/files/luzoxibefatawobemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/26116641127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fptica.ru/images/file/64044401941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenayu.com/filespath/files/20210914070311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__61378144A9487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415da9c136e---43919681474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/47667655510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/79723914369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6g6ukcf5td0b2qa0936ean9ni/palowuwegavuvawepotibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montesantangelo.it/files/files/zetalojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374509eb6dc---xesovabolinanedofodinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzoku-kyujin.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22742528485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/nonifemafodafokowimisazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=call+screening+app+androidPDF 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_off0000e695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE695 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 47ca8e71192d4a8585e46c3def56fc1a93ef5fc67fdacaaa93e5a1182092e2f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C8 17424 bytes
SHA-256: c789e6428f0126f7f5e3136fcd910325003e2d9706d10e805db06db30134cf56