Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6cdcf84280e794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:15:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8ef341a9bec14a0d0df333589fd63fac SHA-1: d9c6ed6bd1e0898ee0871ad8a2689fd321548ae2 SHA-256: ef6cdcf84280e794113b46ad0615074c4c181d8b7c012d146d345a79e35f9d88
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a screenshot, a common tactic to hide clickable elements.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/672970512.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/6944907322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c2b808014e47aebfde8e275a6595976/1680691083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wenonejeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969286b2bb8---figexakazewajalojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611130b37c3ca---wujenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/bizogobawajokorupugitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/89571195782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/foburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/28459400834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62388659122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073eece94a16---6551996216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/saviwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/dutamufukawikezobogakanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/58457616572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winiviruniromerowugobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/wototofunogenerame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/30416423367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/53474505562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/topajasaxobisozuvegerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/550505ff474d88a5c4ab9632a9e72745/94223208317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/66352811042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7798fd867e---paluxegidekenuzipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e638d3630---dabozifojezatemibodawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=differential+equations+applications+in+engineering+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_off0000b149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB149 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 319f0ba058a9f67c20336dbe58d6744b01aaae8e105bb86822320ed8c20a072c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA97 13976 bytes
SHA-256: 5b886b85cfe6bd0cefeaea40a1a887d2743ad1d2564fd8994ff90aad87f86b92
font_02_sfnt_off0000ece9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1