Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef724a213d8aae93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 00:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 08e99a535ec1ec98c5d1327e30c835d3 SHA-1: f8743d0777685d9449d089d783d86c451dd6e5b3 SHA-256: ef724a213d8aae93029d01e364515010de0d9ad04d06432655c0665f3b8092ee
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pc217a+gaming+mouse+driver PDF link annotation
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/xobubivoxetadupugirigogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd3e4ea39df1feca7e15bd523040430/86535852837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703b4904fbf---lekozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bb5925926---daxixavaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/sigimadiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803c834dd64---91453851188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/resoparuwenaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/89688282602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpinfit.it/userfiles/files/57115866734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vepq1jjd8b0t587h7op63bi05j/92812621620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805fd329218---retosekipupevowubomilimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ec4ea8ff842d60eba64d05be23f395/59120390671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17936309285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92b2b0797d---1809044027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d5c1c4d89---fetarited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/62214922976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/46609522736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0d0a5rit3i8n1bngdilmlrl44/31098027902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/80393723932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0485c7d2a1eac329aa401d8efc883cb/sipupajufevekogematojimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/98715404462.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ea3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3A 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 9a81d2731b555299bef849da51cc9f351ced6b9401f9a9d502dd08a354aa25e6
font_01_sfnt_off00011552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11552 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D69 10956 bytes
SHA-256: fb539e9cd37ae20e7297cfc5a00faa158d3f6cd6cda7dc698cdc0264f162c33d