Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef725218e2e53e24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 08:15:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a1b6de1eeb0068641fa9589d432df8ef SHA-1: 59acd7890fae8341119d36be79a2307be080e516 SHA-256: ef725218e2e53e24a9ea7d0711175adeb7988bf7327e283399abeee787aa00cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links suggests the primary goal is to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sanam+teri+kasam+old PDF link annotation
    • https://virtrade.gr/userfiles_lybo/file/vidiwosotijirakupazodisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/53398084686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/verikerapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109091007462505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c34a3aa97---22694715591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/78314007877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fc9e463d8a---2544575084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3tpkbkvpu8ibcgtj73c73rii/gevotogedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31163994548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304c0fc7724---sozelivovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32910752770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/ravexozobamuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amkchem.com/upload/files/13152873305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dooleysnaturalgas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/fanudurufumapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/kekevufotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/6929998300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowadhr.com/app/webroot/upload/files/jureborurorakugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210918_3e5f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/pesojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemma.lucien-sv.info/uploads/files/6142f0011b5b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/30793203206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41499077968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7db127b91dae7025c19385094901e1/88108542087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51690614362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99531756691.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_off0000b7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7A2 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 290f991f5ee4125cf4475eee7b5a333629cfbf0d255c67ffe5c5aa05d14dbe09
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C4 17960 bytes
SHA-256: b2641694eec9c334c4ee3ff0cd142ddf34f961d88ab0e275d63cb1a37dd415d7