Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef7250c223b5f0e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: e113b8f544e09209d99b447e12db1f5d SHA-1: 07e1c8cf0b8ee5a8635aa77e3b6ed25b354dfe59 SHA-256: ef7250c223b5f0e170fd5271035ab05da9b668a3a92c50d0597f2d1462f9dcfd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. Embedded JavaScript streams suggest an attempt to execute code, likely to redirect users to malicious URLs. The presence of numerous unknown URLs associated with compromised CMS uploads indicates a phishing or exploit delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b96a1da6e2---ruruxuxinezanutowuxidafu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613feb2a21a5a---rufirifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1910513b6ce01a36a9b499c46f6cfca/kotidexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firitikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/core/connector/upload/files/defubisiwowasagali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95859245910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88823cdb4d27168e358886a140454660/farujuputo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29252034283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/52482391261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1631090779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/danezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/43112817058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51567607058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f7eb11342---43194604843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/783681269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/dudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt27qot7dvqr8mbjqsn50uhnk3/82313124353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/23643547028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4731469c89785e061ed786d9b7d47b/43996058714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/zotaniseloveziferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abogadosaccidentealicante.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/dewinijamedawolujixome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/fubuwiraxafapidogazisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b8730618e14c8f42458016d7bf0175/vaxonomopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+application+testingPDF 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_off0000fa56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA56 19428 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9dcf52eac6418e25a7a9a62b6bf0a8d63ce5b653dc1d54831d5bbee4d86c2a
font_01_sfnt_off00012d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D61 10672 bytes
SHA-256: ea11ae9cdb7f34f19588c8d6e4ae29bec826ce5544bbbee5f2578a6770069822
font_02_sfnt_off000145bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1