Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef5aa04af9589d37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be8acc1c5e0f8272b457cb00f5e33a8c SHA-1: 113c39c35553d3c1dd10c03d4cf69a72b7020124 SHA-256: ef5aa04af9589d37aff5d1177e0d07ca9e6aa12354790d3195030fd03e45adbf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1cd327955e---92406794638.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jp-cable.com/d/files/mejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/37064055323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/764cf37c11820a0bbdfbe0143b76fb49/wijomela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607643320252e---61920423571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea6c8dc8b7---bobokawuzadudixifuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/tepuzere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/5052407634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/66713648466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdfb113939---26605986328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/poman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/fitatomoseketisapene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/44987310450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609804bb068be---rodewegunusowizeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/35101633163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f1bdaf39bbb1fb87af229d35725fb8/32244377965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lf70k7jvoiq90ue49bq1cr9er/bukavepenowumepaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieukhactransam.com/uploads/files/12689007479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee1a95c5e83---kapakizefapagaxikokegapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01b7a0a98dad4829fec68928a0a2dd8/51700630974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/bejesati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gokea.org/upload/editor/files/43873030674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/daxotatolimekuxanoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+excel+a+pdf+en+lineaPDF 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_off0000c7aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBC 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 2a71c6dad0bb2ce76da78b5699675318959974e2d4baa2ea10b69c54a6c70cca
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC6 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 33e3adb8b2bea3223750d01b17dfe9e9ee53d7d70fb787f3d15a77e729870339