Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef73ca60974edfc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-02 21:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ef74abfffc724c3b55486f0918714d64 SHA-1: e8dc9b8dd16de017dd9d15ad5b56f5ab6af957a4 SHA-256: ef73ca60974edfc2b291f0ea132eacf156c37a6d94f892512b4e78b6c7f604bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating an attempt to host malicious content. The presence of multiple unknown URLs suggests a distribution mechanism for further payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a741127ac74---42391423063.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/nifebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubewoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/zonaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/21295561032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/fopuduzewusexobilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c8e4d1be3---84889223347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be7a9085b2---20067558783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/26729469170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/95530781102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210530212800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/87262075677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/76274420599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intellicapital.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supilajutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47086d7dfbedf1437425fde182f2206a/tabufipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a2fd249f3762101b61a7cc8151ed90/sozekexilegumudetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/73590124922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/33680105081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f625162bb30---36480124744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781a8af3e52---bumofuwasodapiguvapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc2d99c8ce---derirawilelilorumijibepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h2oueiha6r5og0darirf2eq36/sokofala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49ae63f604---ledoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/51909832286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/milelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=butter+churn+price+guidePDF 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_off000110db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DB 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 003560578b9b0eacd516acc39d26824341c6b183911143a37fe803d765823d93
font_01_sfnt_off0001423b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1423B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015a52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A52 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec1891f26c1de763a917ef13901cecfa2d9f5638e93322e806df62c286ff0db