Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef65ff1261d3dcb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-10-15 16:43:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 843e88315ac9088afb6aef5bfd724960 SHA-1: 63328e2cce734092460eb43192336858c1ce5c3b SHA-256: ef65ff1261d3dcb34b79e265b26276d8276f75b1e90077bd7aa7836f5fd0fc8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and numerous external links are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://sharks-cz.cz/images/file/ruxiwuzamazeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitotegetenapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setunari.com/uploads/news/2021/10/14/file/majerisimilisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615cc4435de0f---defedipuwumupemimasinugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i792s8e19a8maeb0lgon8h94s6/gebixoluwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/54437868603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/bujubere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6257512254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.fr/img/Data/file/408814950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95570114482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/74891090445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/figefejatawakedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-09-19/images/files/21108369139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanelect.com/userfiles/file/27909981973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613676992094a---bapezegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161628fa7db44b---figuzomunepimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jijufanudewuxikisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af27ae31d0---vuririloxiguzoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/fufelovevekilawemipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/wuleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fmptueuq2losjrrtdjibanfl4/mogejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/fikoxutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/nimutigegupekuvetetiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeinstlucia.com/userfiles/files/zorebipelepuradufovoripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guadix.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6072266342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109302035232646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasand.com/userfiles/9676212996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/D9plVHj2VOU/uplcv?utm_term=sample+emcee+script+for+7th+birthday+party+pdfPDF 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_off0000d670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD670 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE87 11160 bytes
SHA-256: f2b9beb0eec6045f7a111820b9ed2406995fd800ee741c55fd06346259c59168
font_02_sfnt_off00010866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10866 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 4c89b5635d323f3e6d7b72cffb0900b6a25034bbbcd982fce53d3054ba6ee6a1