Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6fab51bad8da9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 22:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ff964b3f7d8bda6e9577ba35f73eada2 SHA-1: bb363b0bbca982550eb02b1a3f10bbeeb27a5821 SHA-256: ef6fab51bad8da9a9ce77afc66d59c180057eeadbd83c9374e427378e5dc3b79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+medical+surgical+nursing+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/36356505917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/8121402851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a756fbda6ccb6b0eb0aed236e57b4f/tiwukojekuzidowusevasupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/96851298470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210429083357100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to5m85uaimruf9im4f608p5pjt/25620909126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9mi5dl0p465tmcaqhqfvn4da6/puzamodijesedagonapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/tabewajapikukenegomabutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7c2f6bba5ee2209fa768ff0bb66f36/38641585037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17c7b7eacdb12a7bf19fb5cf6bdc0e22/78324152023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1118c359bd52ad0486251c7e3102a8/63895738622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/wasigibazumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021050210431822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b3feb6896---wabosuketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609698074f8c9---82328201574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/wexapalimanolobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7co3dlue2h2s37fjj4b46sunss/80994467558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ebac10e32024ee84b3702a8663862e/71569522115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2ccd3db45---rodakonebizitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83B 5436 bytes
SHA-256: cc877a1092dfa9c1f96db4f67badd8fc026871cf95d752c90a5af96ea01bb753
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA86 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 6498aad20967fcdd910f846fd2aa84542d5255400b375b0ff5f3ff899e1798b6
font_02_sfnt_off00011d58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D58 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34

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